53 Quotes by Peter Coyote


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    I got out of college and I went to get my master’s in creative writing at San Francisco State. I was working as an actor at the Actor’s Workshop, being abused as a intern.

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

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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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    You don’t see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they’re doing, by doing it.

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    Once you accept anything as tacked down, then you begin to build a structure, to accept limits. Then you have to make a choice as to whether or not you’re going to accept that structure. If you do, you give up the notion of total freedom.

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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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