Clarke Peters Quotes
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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For the first time, entrepreneurs can monetize their own open-source and peer-to-peer network. They can crowdfund and raise money from people across the world on the Internet in crypto-currency.
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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
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Before the Civil War, the Negro was certainly as efficient a workman as the raw immigrant from Ireland or Germany. But, whereas the Irishmen found economic opportunity wide and daily growing wider, the Negro found public opinion determined to 'keep him in his place.'
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The possibility that a provincial town could win the League completely bucks the trend.
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There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
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My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince, and a soldier.
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As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.
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I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
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Writing is a discipline: it's almost all about holding back.
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I think the first and principle objective is to repeal Obamacare before it does lasting, fundamental damage to our health care system, to our individual liberty, to the relationship each of us has with his or her doctor.
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An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society, there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared.
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Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.
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I'm always gonna be crazy about dishes in the sink. Crazy! Because it's a sign of disrespect. It says that you think someone else is going to clean up after you: that you're not prepared to do it yourself.
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...a novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it...
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There have been crazy highs and lows in my life. I've duelled with drug addiction and watched people dying... like everybody. I'm not saying it's an exceptionally dramatic peaks-and-valleys kind of life but there's a lot of it, honestly.
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It's really interesting working in television as opposed to the theater, where you know the arc of the character and you are able to create this whole backstory.
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The weaker partner in a marriage is the one who loves the most.
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I like to be real private; you don't always want everyone around you - even when they like you.
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Your blouse is whitening on the chair and your parrot Flaubert weeps in French: she left him, and he is sorry.
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I'm a stage actor, and we never get to see our performances.
