Clarke Peters Quotes

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

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• If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.

  

  Carl Karcher
  • Money
  • Pain
  • Child

• Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

  

  Barnabe Barnes
  • Sweet
  • Where
  • Content

• My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Long
  • Happy

• In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Would
  • Put
  • Spiteful

• Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Rights
  • Means
  • Homosexuality

• I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Women
  • Think
  • Find

• My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • School
  • High
  • Dream

• It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Way
  • Play
  • Dreams

• You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Job
  • Kids
  • Wife

• I think everybody goes through things in their life where they're like, 'This does not make any sense,' or 'I don't understand why this is happening,' but that's part of the journey of faith.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Why
  • Faith

• There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Today

• I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Perfect
  • Laugh

• The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.

  

  Hannah Gadsby
  • You
  • Comedy
  • Own

• What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Conflict
  • Inequality

• Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Time
  • Job
  • Salary

• You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.

  

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  • World
  • May
  • Woman

• Every night that I put my head on the pillow, I go to sleep knowing that I can do more. I'm working toward perfection. I'm trying to be the best ever.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Trying
  • Night
  • Best

• Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.

  

  James Belushi
  • Family
  • Car
  • Fire

• We believe this is a crucial next step in revealing what was improper and getting money back to shareholders who lost money.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Lost

• I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Work
  • Long
  • Race

• As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.

  

  John M. McHugh
  • Long

• Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

  

  Fred Durst Limp Bizkit
  • Long

• I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

  

  Clarke Peters
  • Long
  • Exercise