Clarke Peters Quotes
My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.
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I'm a character actor.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
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My paternal grandfather Rustom Mehta had a huge influence on me because of his ethics and his values.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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The death of my kid made me a stronger person. There's no end to what I'm willing to do.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
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Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own.
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I think that Americans, they love comfort more than Europeans. Americans created the T-shirt, the sweat pants, and they create the best sporting shoes.
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A politician ought to be born a foundling and remain a bachelor.
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I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
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I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.
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Everywhere I go, I have my little Steinberger, and I like it very well.
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I don't take on a product unless I believe in it. I use everything that I sell.
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His life story was the story of Patricia and him, after all, for better or worse, and if she ended his life might go on, but his story would be over.
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Let's face it: the 19th century really was the great age of the novel - Melville, Hawthorne, Tolstoy. These are the people I really admire.
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One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
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In the 1980s, there weren't a lot of role models for gay teenagers.
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My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience.
