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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Womanhood is something you don't consider until it hits you.
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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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The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort.
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When I started stand-up - and this is in the '90s - there was definitely people hadn't watched decades of Comedy Central, where people are really much more educated on stand-up comedy.
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And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the shelf doing what we wanted, we were forced to construct it. And the original experiment ... developed into a method for the production of hybridomas ... which was of more importance than our original purpose.
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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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I love Madonna! If you want to see the Madonna I know, just go on YouTube and you'll see those early interviews before the record came out. She was giddy and wonderful and giggly and happy and so excited looking towards the future.
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If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.
