Aubrey Peeples Quotes
With any entertainment business, you sort of have to be OK with just going with it. I've learned very much to just go with the flow and see what happens with my life, and what happens happens.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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You can't control where your heart goes.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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I'm not embarrassed about who I am. I'm not apologetic.
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
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I call it the 'House of Reprehensibles.' We don't have any real political resistance to this growth of the domestic state across the board. So I'm much more focused on that than on the Patriot Act, which is a real effort, however inept, to deal with a real problem.
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Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.'
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You're not free in life until you're free of wanting other people's approval.
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People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have reached at least our level of technological development.
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If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care?
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With any entertainment business, you sort of have to be OK with just going with it. I've learned very much to just go with the flow and see what happens with my life, and what happens happens.
