Peter Tork (Peter Halsten Thorkelson) Quotes
I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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I'm very proud to be a woman - you're part of a tribe. Automatically, you feel connected to another woman when you meet them. That's really special.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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That is the effect of my sculptures in the public domain: people are making contact with each other again.
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The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.
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When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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Don't take 'no' for an answer.
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If you don't feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.
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There are a thousand ways to play any role.
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There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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Whenever you make a figure of a man or of some graceful animal remember to avoid making it seem wooden; that is it should move with counterpoise and balance in such a way as not to seem a block of wood.
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I always thought of myself as being part of a family and sharing and, yes, leading, but not forcing people to do anything.
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You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.
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As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.
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I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.
