Cassandra Peterson Quotes
If I retire doing the character, I don't think the character has to retire. There will still be caricatures of Elvira. You know, Dracula still works, and he's dead.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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Personality is everything that's false in a human: everything that's been added on to him and contrived.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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I was getting a little bored with my hair. It's kind of a symbolic thing, just getting rid of the past, moving forward. It's amazing what a reaction you get when you cut your hair.
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I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years.
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I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.
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Every crowd has a silver lining.
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I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.
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I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
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The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.
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If you don’t care about my people, why should I care about yours?
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Will you tell them about that far off and mythical land And how a child to the virgin came? Will you tell them that the reason why we murdered Everything upon the surface of the world Is so we can stand right up and say we did it in his name?
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We are Republicans. But we are Americans first. It is as Americans that we express our concern with the growing confusion that threatens the security and stability of our country.
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I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.
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It's very much like filmmaking always is-you're always asked to do something that you're not sure you know how to do. So you make an educated guess as to what you think will work and you hope between that and plan B, that you can end up with a product that's really good.
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I usually just go on Google and spend my hours just Googling Jennifer Beals. I think it's possible that I have a slightly unordinary obsession with her. YouTube videos. Interviews with her. Pictures I put on my desktop and my phone.
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I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.
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Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.
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If I retire doing the character, I don't think the character has to retire. There will still be caricatures of Elvira. You know, Dracula still works, and he's dead.
