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Peter Finch Quotes

I do not believe that with a fictional character you can force yourself too far away from yourself. There has to be some of you in it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: australian
Birth: September 28, 1916 - January 14, 1977

Topics

Character Yourself Believe You Force

I really like to cook and have dinner parties and I like to clean, it really clears my head and it makes me feel good to keep my home as a comfortable place.

Good Home Me Dinner Feel Good Feel

Irvine, being a planned community, is really good shorthand, especially in a movie or book, for understanding suburban pressures.

Good Community Book Understanding

Exploitation films were famous for taking an issue an exploiting it because they could move much faster than a studio could. If there was any hot topic, they would run out and make a quick movie and make a buck on it, by changing it around and using it, in some way, to give some relevance.

Robert Rodriguez

Famous Run Way Hot Quick Out

So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically.

Robert McChesney

Media You More Difficult Where Get

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

Art True Visionary False Call Us

Because I never set out to be an actress, I always feel so lucky and grateful. There are so many people who are really desperate to be stars, and it was completely the opposite for me - I fell into it.

Stars Grateful People Me Feel Lucky

I've always acted; in fact, I can't remember a time when I was not. When I was little, cinema was a game, then my father's job and now mine.

Father Time Job Game Remember Now

I'm lively and gay by nature.

Nature Gay Lively

The first time I saw America was from my perch on the mast of a Spanish naval ship, where I could spot the Statue of Liberty reaching proudly into the open, endless American sky.

Time Sky Ship American America Open

From when I was a really small girl on, I would pick every fabric, every color on the walls, and I was always redecorating. Like once every couple of months I would redecorate my room. I had a full wall that was all collage - the entire wall - when I was in junior high. And then it would kind of morph with me as I was growing.

Girl Walls Me Small Color Wall

From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

Christopher Moore

Way Always Used Generations Been

I came from a state where 35 percent self-identify as Tea Partiers, so I'm a bit distorted perhaps in my appreciation for the larger American population.

Appreciation Tea American Population

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