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If you’re early on in your career and they give you a choice between a great mentor or higher pay, take the mentor every time. It’s not even close. And don’t even think about leaving that mentor until your learning curve peaks.
I’ve definitely got lists of things I’d love to accomplish as a climber. But let’s face it: The world’s full of climbers, and the realm of unexplored, unclimbed peaks is shrinking rapidly.
I don’t mean to brag, but David Lynch said he was looking for the most incredible face he could find. I actually met him at a ‘Twin Peaks’ party, and he was like, ‘Look at that face!’
The whole mythological side of ‘Twin Peaks’ was really down to me, and I’ve always known about the Theosophical writers and that whole group around the Order of the Golden Dawn in the late nineteenth, early twentieth century – W. B. Yeats, Madame Blavatsky, and a woman called Alice Bailey, a very interesting writer.
The most dangerous age is 14. If you know any teenagers, this might not come as a surprise, but research has confirmed that risk-taking peaks during this exact moment in mid-adolescence.
‘Twin Peaks’ was huge. I mean, it changed television; it was a huge hit, and it only went a season and a half. So that teaches you immediately that you just enjoy it for the time that you do it.
‘Precious’ is strangely uplifting. It goes down into the valley but it also goes to the mountain tops. A lot of difficult realities are explored in ‘Precious,’ but the peaks make the valleys and the valleys make the peaks.
There are going to be peaks and valleys in everything – in your marriage, in your job, in your life. So just enjoy the peaks and ride out the valleys. Just try not to do anything too rash.
Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don’t think I really started feeling my age until around 40.
‘Twin Peaks’ is so phenomenal. And it worked because they struck the right tone: they brought intelligence to it, and the mystery itself was compelling.
I’ve always said that ‘Twin Peaks,’ to me, was like a novel we filmed every page of.
Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.
The film itself, and my role as Moses, will always remain one of the creative peaks of my career.
‘Twin Peaks’ has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You’ve had bad people before. But everyone’s got little quirks, and everyone’s interesting.
When certain doors opened around ‘Twin Peaks,’ I wasn’t interested in walking through them. Now I just feel like I’m more open to life. I have two children. My life is not dependent on the business in that way.
When you’ve done so many records in 20 years like I have, you’re going to have ebbs and flows and go through peaks and valleys.
It’s all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.
Man, ‘Twin Peaks’ ruined me for television. I mean, how can you top a show like that.
When I was a small child, I began on small mountains. Now, as I am getting older, the small peaks are getting bigger. If I am lucky, some day I will end on a small peak.
‘Twin Peaks’ is my favorite show of all time.
‘Twin Peaks’ fans, it’s a hardcore group of people.
My career has been a slow burn with many peaks and valleys.
I feel the same magic about ‘Angel Falls’ that I did with ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Mod Squad.’
I feel lucky that I was able to sign a contract for an extended period of time with a no-trade clause. I don’t take that lightly. I also understand that there are gonna be ebbs and flows, and peaks and valleys.
‘Witches of East End’ is certainly wild, and so are a lot of other shows these days. But ‘Twin Peaks’ still holds the gold medal for strange. I think we’ll hang onto that for all of TV eternity!
At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
The San Gabriel Mountains rise like a rampart at the edge of the city, safeguarding more than 500,000 acres of mature forests, mountain streams, dramatic waterfalls, and towering peaks that reach over 9,000 feet. These untamed places attract bighorn sheep, mountain lions, and other threatened or endangered species.
The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it’s all going to go into the art, whether I’m singing or acting or whatever.
Acting, like wine, gets better as time goes on. Singing gets better after a certain age. The dancer peaks at 35 or 40.
There’s a part of ‘Twin Peaks’ that is sort of a hinged doorway to another, stranger place, if you can imagine such a thing.
Like ‘Twin Peaks,’ ’24,’ ‘Mad Men,’ and ‘The Sopranos’ before it, ‘Downton Abbey’ enriches the iconography and collective lore of pop culture. It replenishes the stream.
A novel takes place over time. It’s a historical narrative, and it needs to have a series of peaks and valleys and the move through. You can’t just start at the highest pitch and stay there, but you can in a lyric poem.
Without ‘Twin Peaks,’ there would have been no ‘Northern Exposure,’ ‘Picket Fences,’ ‘X-Files’ or ‘Alias.’ It started the movement of ‘off-center’ television.
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
I’ve done soap operas in New York, playing a continuing character who goes through changes and develops, but none of that has created the enduring interest that ‘Twin Peaks’ has.
Our culture is so inundated with Freudian prototypes, and I think that ‘Twin Peaks’ came up with a whole new Pandora’s Box of outlandishly mental, out of balance people that have never been described or have been noted by the psychiatric community.
Star Trek’ always had a pretty serious atmosphere, but with ‘Twin Peaks,’ you walked onto the set and you had the feeling that everybody was walking around in a trance.
Our brains are wired such that it’s difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn’t prolonged, it’s harmless.
I’m a massive fan of David Lynch and ‘Twin Peaks.’
Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.
‘Twin Peaks’ is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that’s different. The one thing that I can hang onto.
I’m a huge ‘Twin Peaks’ fan.
I think now what you’re seeing is guys that are in the peaks of their careers anywhere from 27 to 35 years old, seems to be when they play their best hockey.
I felt guilty about what happened on ‘Twin Peaks.’ All of a sudden, to have that kind of payoff for doing so little seemed very strange.
I think you can safely say that the mystery in ‘Twin Peaks’ as we started to explore more is very large, there are many aspects to it and the hope is that people will find things that they are interested in in all sorts of things related to the larger mystery.
Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.
I have traveled down this path before – ‘List of Seven’ and ‘Twin Peaks’ both have thematic similarities – but ‘Paladin’ took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell’s Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don’t forget your ball of twine.
Those of us who were on ‘Twin Peaks’ can very easily make fun of it, but we get along really well, and we have a playful energy together.
The density of space junk peaks around 620 miles up, in the middle of so-called low-Earth orbit. That’s bad, because many weather, scientific, and reconnaissance satellites circle in various low-Earth orbits.
Tom Hooper had done ‘John Adams,’ and David Lynch did ‘Twin Peaks.’ I figured I could do eight hours of television, and I wanted to.
I was a massive fan of ‘Twin Peaks.’ Massive. I don’t know how any of us grew up in this age of television and weren’t astounded, and saying that, I’m still shocked that that was on network television.
‘Twin Peaks’ was the best job I ever had as an actor.
As good as ‘Twin Peaks’ was, and I mean, it’s a superb work that’s way ahead of its time, and we’ve never caught up, and we never will… I mean, we will never catch up to ‘Twin Peaks.’
That was the beauty of ‘Twin Peaks.’ The young people had just as deep of storylines as the older generation in town.
‘Twin Peaks’ without David Lynch is like a dog without a bark.
You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.
The challenge for us is to try and come back and raise the bar above what we did the last time. We’re coming back with season three of ‘Twin Peaks’ after a 25-year absence.
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