Oscar Peterson Quotes
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Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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I think knowing where you can generally fit is important, but the fun thing about being an actor is sometimes stretching beyond that stereotype and stretching beyond the box that people put you in.
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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In fact, you couldn't give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.
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Our dream as actors is to tell interesting stories about interesting people.
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Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.
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People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
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Regular martial arts is traditional, with no music and no flips choreograhed into it. But extreme martial arts is choreographed to music. It's very fast-beat uptempo, and you put a lot of acrobatic maneuvers into the routine.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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Unlike the stereotypical author, I've never had a job as a short-order cook, but I love cooking hot breakfasts for lots of people, juggling the eggs and the bacon and the tomatoes and the fried potatoes and so on.
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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
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I love observing people.
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I think like that all the time: nobody can block me, nobody can stop me, nobody can play the run the way I can. You've got to think like that all the time.
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When you look back on your life, it looks as though it were a plot, but when you are into it, it's a mess: just one surprise after another. Then, later, you see it was perfect.
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I'm very interested in science fiction, and I like new things. I've never been a really sentimental person.
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If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
