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Peter Coyote
Peter Coyote
American Actor
Born: Oct 10, 1941
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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. Peter Coyote
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Habitat for wildlife is continually shrinking - I can at least provide a way station. Peter Coyote
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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. Peter Coyote
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I think you have a social responsibility as the villain, which is pretty different from the hero's responsibility. If you have any kind of a social or political conscience at all, the first thing you want to do is make malevolence recognizable to people, almost as a kind of teaching aid. Peter Coyote
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The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship. Peter Coyote
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I would say 90 percent of my mail and phone calls are from people who want some kind of help or succor or commitment from me to do something. 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. Peter Coyote
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Money is a way of creating scarcity. Peter Coyote
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The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that. Peter Coyote
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I think it's good that people value their bodies and take care of them. I think if you cross the line and begin using your body as an asset or as an extension of your vanity, you've gone too far. Peter Coyote
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I think the '60s were an extraordinary time. I feel bad for the kids today who missed this wonderful confluence, which was simultaneously a confluence of the global and the mythological. Peter Coyote
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Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment. Peter Coyote
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The first time I read something, I have this special feeling of being fully engaged with it. It's fresh to the audience because it's fresh to me. It's a little mystical, but I really believe that. Peter Coyote
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I've always been a writer. Peter Coyote
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Acting is the way I make my living. Peter Coyote
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In 2001, Texaco was bought by Chevron, and during deliberations concerning that sale, an 800 page document listing the problems and liabilities connected to Texaco was brought forward at their stockholder meeting by Amazon Watch, a non-profit dedicated to protecting the Amazon. Peter Coyote
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Young people, for whom I should have been a role model and an uncle, duplicated my worst habits and died as a result. Peter Coyote
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One of the most treasured books that I own is Donald Allen's 'The New American Poetry, 1945-1960.' It was a totem of great importance and potency to my group of writer friends in college from 1960 to 1964. Peter Coyote
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When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, until I saw Kay Hayward and Sandy Archer in the San Francisco Mime Troupe and drove down that day to audition. The rest is history. Peter Coyote
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We spend all this energy keeping our lives normal and safe and predictable, and the result is that our approved cultural safety valve is the movies. So in films, anyway, the hero is obliged to represent the continuance of social values and institutions, and his permission to act is much more seriously limited than the villain's. Peter Coyote
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When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous. Peter Coyote
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