American - Actor | October 10, 1941 -
I've always been a writer.
Peter Coyote
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Acting is the way I make my living.
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The terrible thing about being an actor is that it's not a solo occupation.
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Writing is something I can do by myself.
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I believe that when you're wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.
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In 2001, Texaco was bought by Chevron, and during deliberations concerning that sale, an 800 page document listing the problems and liabilities connected to Texaco was brought forward at their stockholder meeting by Amazon Watch, a non-profit dedicated to protecting the Amazon.
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I am fascinated by women. They're as close as we men get to experiencing 'the other.' The challenge for me was to know and accept fully formed, powerful women.
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Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result.
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Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.
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One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance and potency to my group of writer friends in college from 1960 to 1964.
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When I was young and growing up in New York, my parents took me to children's theater quite often - elaborate presentations of 'Goldilocks' and 'Rapunzel' for Upper East Side kids. As I grew older, they took me to adult theater, mostly musicals.
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When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history.
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