Peter Quotes - Page 12

• I don't know why you're making the poor girl play with you," Peter said. "You're going to completely slaughter her." "Well, I am the greatest Guitar Hero player of all time," Jack said.

  Amanda Hocking

  Girl, Hero, Player

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• Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him." "I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.

  Josh Lanyon

  Heart, School, People

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• She wanted to cry, but she did not want Peter to see her cry, and she especially did not want Teacher, with her flowing hair, to see her cry.

  Dave Barry

  Teacher, Hair, Want

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• I remember how much - when I was a small boy I was taken to see a version of 'Peter Pan.' I detested it. I mean, the sentimental idea that anybody would want to remain a boy.

  Maurice Sendak

  Taken, Mean, Boys

  "Looking Back On 'Wild Things' With Maurice Sendak". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 23, 2009.

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• As a kid, my idols were Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson, and I get into crazy races with myself. Raimi was 21 when he made movies, and when I didn't get 'Cabin Fever' made that fast I thought I'd failed.

  Eli Roth

  Crazy, Kids, Race

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• I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and Joan Baez and Bob Dylan and Peter Paul & Mary.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Jobs, Believe, Responsibility

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• Sometimes I think about the sly, flickering line that separates being spared from being rejected. Sometimes I think of the ancient gods who demanded that their sacrifices be fearless and without blemish, and I wonder whether, whoever or whatever took Peter and Jamie away, it decided I wasn't good enough.

  Tana French

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Fearless

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• I'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.

  Mike Myers

  Hero, Thinking, Actors

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• If any man would come after me, let him deny himself." The disciple must say to himself the same words Peter said of Christ when he denied him: "I know not this man." Self-denial is never just a series of isolated acts of mortification or asceticism. It is not suicide, for there is an element of self-will even in that. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us. Once more, all that self denial can say is: "He leads the way, keep close to him.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Suicide, Men, Self

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much.

  Ken Hensley

  Green, Early Work

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• I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

  Lev Grossman

  Reading, Book, School

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• We believe 'Peter Rabbit' because Beatrix Potter believes it. You have to.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Believe, Rabbits, Potters

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• Spider-Man's probably my favorite. You see, Batman is a billionaire and there's nothing really cool about a billionaire saving the world. But Spider-Man is Peter Parker, a conflicted character who puts on a suit and saves the world. I love that.

  Zac Efron

  Character, Men, Suits

  "Zac on dating & dancing". Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 22, 2006.

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• The thought of eating rabbit and squirrels doesn't appeal to me. And that was on our table quite often as a kid. In your uppity restaurants, they serve a lot of rabbit. But I just can't help but think of Peter. And deer, I can't go there, because of Bambi.

  Paula Deen

  Kids, Thinking, Squirrels

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• Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence. He frowned. "I am back," he said hotly, "why do you not cheer?

  James M. Barrie

  Cheer, Boys, Silence

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• QUINCE Francis Flute, the bellows-mender. FLUTE Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE Flute, you must take Thisby on you. FLUTE What is Thisby? a wandering knight? QUINCE It is the lady that Pyramus must love. FLUTE Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.

  William Shakespeare

  Knights, Play, Beard

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 1, sc. 2, l. [50]

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• Peter Van Houten was the only person I’d ever come across who seemed to (a) understand what it’s like to be dying, and (b) not have died.

  John Green

  Dying, Vans, Persons

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.225, Penguin

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• I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called The Boy from Oz, where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

  Hugh Jackman

  Boys, Play, America

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. April 29, 2003.

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• Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

  Val Kilmer

  Actors, Brilliant, Comedic

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• After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

  James M. Barrie

  Love You, Boys, Firsts

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.88, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jesus, Guy, Thieves

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• Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

  Mike Myers

  Dad, Comedy, Favourite

  "Mike Myers: My family values". Interview with Elaine Lipworth, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2010.

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• Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

  Mike Myers

  Python, Ties, House

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• If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.

  Amanda Hocking

  Real, Mad, Gone

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• Nic's going to be an old maid," Michael said, giggling. "What?" she snapped. "How do you even know what that means? You're like, four years old." "Mommy said it," Michael answered. Bernie coughed, nearly choking on her food as Peter and Xavier laughed into their napkins.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Mean, Years, Maids

  Alexandra Adornetto (2010). “Halo”, p.285, Macmillan

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