William Petersen Quotes
I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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Let people have an education and you can't stop them.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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I like to work.
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Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.
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When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.
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Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.
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It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
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There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.
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Put away these frozenjawed primates and their annals of ways beset and ultimate dark. What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as in this flesh. This mawky wormbent tabernacle.
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After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.
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Our only hope for tomorrow is peace now.
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I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
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My whole thing is there is nobody else like you in this whole world.
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My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.
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I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies.
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Yes, for blacks, racism functions without the actual presence of whites, just as for whites it functions without the actual presence of blacks! Beliefs, conventions, history do the work.
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All the 'too close to call' announcements are not due to incompetence ... It's caution.
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A liberation struggle is like a struggle against dirt. No matter what type of bath you takein three weeks you'll smell like you've never seen a bathtub. What we don't understand about a liberation struggle is you never win it, any more than you "win" clean dishes. As soon as you eat on them, the dishes are dirty again.
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A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment.
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I know a lot of actors who've just gotten bitter because they did something and then nobody ever saw it or whatever.
