Charlie Peacock Quotes
The irony of conversing with a stranger is that your individual lives always look very different and personal, but then you strip away the nuances to find a common likeness buried inside of diversity. Take away money and geography and we’re all just flesh and blood and soul. We’re all dealing with sin and forgiveness, love and hate, glory and shame.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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When I lived in India, I'd speak like an Indian to get good prices while shopping. I'm good with accents.
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I try to write life and not songs. People live life, and when you write life, you're going to mess around and touch somebody's heart, and they'll relate to you and what you're singing about.
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I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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When I was younger, I didn't have the finer things in life. It was around me - the cars, the jewelry and all of that. But I didn't have it. So I did bad things to get what I wanted. Going to jail never crossed my mind. I wish it had. When I was locked up, my mother didn't support me because she couldn't accept who I was and where I was.
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Florentine had grown more or less immune to the charms of spring.
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In the face of Russian aggression, we’re not going to turn our back to our allies in Europe. We’re going to stay united in NATO, which is the world’s strongest alliance.
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It suddenly hit me one day: after we're married I'll be called Mrs T Leaf!
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But where does by far the bulk, the whole ambulance load, of pain really come from? Where must it come from? Isn't the true poet or painter a seer? Isn't he, actually, the only seer we have on earth? Most apparently not the scientist, most emphatically not the psychiatrist.
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You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.
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Monetarism is dead and the alien doctrines of Friedman and Hayek remain only to be buried.
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In French the truth of passion stood up coldly and cruelly to the scrutiny of human experience. In his own curious phrase he Pursewarden had always qualified it as 'an unsniggerable language'. (VIII)
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So we do sometimes think because it has been found to pay.
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I never for a moment considered not doing the show. When I did the show I became very emotional. Some of the lyrics suddenly took on an entirely different meaning. Words like, 'as if we never said goodbye' became more real.
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about Ad Reinhardt: ..we supported each other.. .He thought I was a good painter, and I thought he was a good painter.
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We act in ways that are mysterious to ourselves.
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Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
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To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.
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Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
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I stress the relevance of my work for cancer research because I believe that science must be useful to man.
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The irony of conversing with a stranger is that your individual lives always look very different and personal, but then you strip away the nuances to find a common likeness buried inside of diversity. Take away money and geography and we’re all just flesh and blood and soul. We’re all dealing with sin and forgiveness, love and hate, glory and shame.
