William Petersen Quotes
One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
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People hear the examples of kids who work when they're young, have bad experiences, and then have a rough life after that, but a lot of it is just about the people around you.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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Too many executives I've met over the years have the mentality of a bodybuilder; they've come to accept the idea that growth is synonymous with success.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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Trying to think about the rest of the team over myself or my scoring is something that I never really had to do before.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I really believe you can predict when someone has a great attitude, a real well of talent.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, seeing if I could fit an extra word or syllable into each line without tripping myself up.
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I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.
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When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.
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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
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While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
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When I have no appointments, I spend the day in pajamas and go to the dog park in pajamas. I'm very casual.
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The most important thing today is for young people to take responsibility, to actually know how to formulate an idea and how to work on it. Not to buy into the so-called apprenticeship.
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One of the things I love about theater, one of the reasons I'll never give it up, is that it's fifty percent the audience's responsibility.
