Esther Peterson (Esther Eggertsen Peterson) Quotes
I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'

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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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The whole Baja California peninsula is an energetic place, and it's incredibly alive.
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He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
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I have popular support.
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Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
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I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.
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I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.
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Every man has his folly, but the greatest folly of all … is not to have one.
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Once I can verify my account, I will have a Twitter.
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The thing I always guard against when I'm talking to people I'm working with about a script is that there's a thing I don't like and it's called "talk story." It's when you're talking about the story; the characters are tasked with talking about the story instead of allowing the audience to experience the story.
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His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
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It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot believe in it.
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I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'