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.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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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.
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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.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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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.
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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.
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You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
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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.
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The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.
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Emotions are one of the main things that derail communication. Once people get upset at one another, rational thinking goes out of the window.
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My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.
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I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.
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People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.
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I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.
