Clarke Peters Quotes
I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.
Quotes to Explore
-
If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
-
Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
-
Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I can't help but laugh at how perfect I am.
-
The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
-
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.
-
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.
-
You may be a princess or the richest woman in the world, but you cannot be more than a lady.
-
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.
-
For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.
-
Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.
-
I don't know that Donald Trump really cares about what the outcome is, as long as he's in charge of it. Seeing whom he can steer in which direction and how far he can push them.
-
The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.
-
I knew that my love for the Sisters of Mercy, Lords of the New Church and that kind of stuff, was never going to lend itself well to a direct interpretation in Black Veil Brides.
-
I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.
