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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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 love girl power.
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I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers.
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If I'm a director and I read a script and I say yeah I really want to do this, I would never walk away because the deal wasn't very good - that I wasn't getting paid very much or that the chances that I would see anything on the back end were remote because of the financial waterfall and the way it's structured. I would never use that as a reason not to do something.
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Be willing to take on career risks.
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I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
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I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.
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I don't know about friends, but what time I spent with The Beatles they were very courteous to me.
