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Peter Coyote

"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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"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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"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."
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"The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that."
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