George Peppard Quotes

If they'll have me and the show does well, I could do this another two or three years.

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• I'm writing in English; I'm writing for a Western audience, but the people I'm surrounded by in my daily life are mostly non-white.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Music
  • Find

• Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Experience
  • Political
  • Blind

• Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Thoughts

• There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Long
  • Nice
  • Wonder

• When you try to predict future E.R.A.'s with past E.R.A.'s, you're making a mistake.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Future
  • Past
  • Mistake

• The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Way
  • Like
  • Idea

• When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Work
  • Book
  • Lost

• To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.

  

  Quintilian
  • Man
  • Swear
  • Honorable

• Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Virtue
  • Demand
  • Greater

• I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Game
  • Never
  • Story

• I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Team
  • Tennis
  • Volleyball

• To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Wise
  • Given

• Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Gold
  • Lead
  • Silver

• As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Game
  • Child
  • Sound

• For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• The ocean is the lifeblood of our world. If we were to lose our fish that we appreciate so much by overfishing; or if we were to lose some of our favorite beaches to overbuilding and pollution, then how would we feel? It's become a case of not knowing what you've got until it's gone.

  

  Aaron Peirsol
  • World
  • Ocean
  • Fish

• The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Work
  • Death

• It dawned on me, the enormity of my situation. I was, in fact, the catalyst for it all. That feeling has stayed with me ever since.

  

  Lonnie Donegan
  • Feeling
  • Situation
  • Catalyst

• I found a way of working which pleased me because I didn’t have to frighten people with heavy equipment. It was that little black box and me.

  

  Eve Arnold
  • Black
  • Found
  • Boxes

• I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • People
  • Create
  • I Can

• Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.

  

  Aaron Allston
  • First
  • Legal
  • Lawyers

• Punk-rock records came out and you bought whatever you could find. But Devo didn't happen for another three years. Sex Pistols didn't tour the States until '78. At that time, for me, it was really about CBGB, Patti Smith, Talking Heads, the Ramones, and Television.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
  • Years
  • Records
  • Sex Pistols

• If they'll have me and the show does well, I could do this another two or three years.

  

  George Peppard
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