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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For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.
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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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Around here, manana seems to be the busiest day of the week. We never seem to get there.
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Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.
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My parents separated it, and that let me know that TV life wasn't my normal life; that was my job and my hobby.
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No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.
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Who taught you all this, doctor?" The reply came promptly: "Suffering.
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I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'
