Clarke Peters Quotes

I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did 'Guys and Dolls' at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: 'This is where the world wants me; I'll stay.'

Clarke Peters

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 7, 1952

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You cannot change the conclusion of the brain by torture, nor by social ostracism. But I will tell you what you can do by these and what you have done. You can make hypocrites by the million.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Germany's strength lies largely in the fact that the Federal Republic is a center of industry and that it's an export nation.

Angela Merkel

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I'm from Queensbridge. It's the largest housing project in New York. And growing up in Queens, it was different because I wasn't really experienced in traveling to the City. I never really got used to the City.

Metta World Peace

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The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.

Alvin Ailey

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This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life.

Tom McCall

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The funny thing about writing is, although you are writing about an experience which only you have had, you are trying to welcome other people into it, and there are ways I think of doing this, and one of them is through the senses, through the sounds and the smells.

Ronald Frame

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Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.

Mike Huckabee

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Many people, I've noticed by informally polling friends, are prone to distinguishing a beach read by genre. Some people thought all thrillers are beach reads; others thought all romances are. Some people thought only mass market paperbacks are eligible for beach read standards.

Michelle Dean

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I love the fact that Facebook offers equal leave for moms and dads. Consider that for your company.

Christine Tsai

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I had three brilliant English teachers at secondary school. They found the writer in me.

Anthony Horowitz

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I founded io9 back in 2008, and I watched it journey from the farthest reaches of space to its current home under this atmosphere bubble on Ceres.

Annalee Newitz

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I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.

Penn Jillette

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