53 Quotes by Peter Coyote

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    If success could heal, why do so many celebrity marriages end in divorce and celebrated artists wind up in rehab or the morgue? Why do people with a firm grip on the world's tail take their own lives or pursue suicidally risky behaviors?

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    Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station.

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    When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

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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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    There has to be that feeling in a good villain - that he's awesome, he has his own power; that he is, in several senses, unstoppable.

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    My gift seems to be that I am able to tell a story in a comprehensible and engaging way.

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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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    Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

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