Pierre Pettigrew Quotes

I won't say they're all intolerant, ... Some of them are adopting our approach to cultural communities.

Pierre Pettigrew

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• I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Beginning
  • Writers
  • Influenced

• I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'

  

  Aby Rosen
  • People
  • Night
  • Interesting

• 'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to fulfilment or success is not the obvious one. You must take twists and turns to achieve a goal.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Different
  • Success
  • Goal

• It doesn't interest me to be Harrison Ford. It interests me to be Mike Pomeroy and Indiana Jones and Jack Ryan. I don't want to be in the Harrison Ford business. I take what I do seriously, but I don't take myself seriously.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Business
  • Interest
  • Seriously

• By 15, I was lucky enough to find the theater.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Enough
  • Find
  • Lucky

• I would rather do surrogacy before adopting. If I can't do it, I'd rather find someone who would do it for me.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Find
  • Adopting
  • Surrogacy

• You like potato and I like po-tah-to,You like tomato and I like to-mah-to;Potato, po-tah-to, tomato, to-mah-to – Let's call the whole thing off!

  

  Ira Gershwin

• I entirely differ with the Government as to the value of precedents. In this case, as in others, precedents are not mere dusty phrases, which do not substantially affect the question before us. A precedent embalms a principle.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Question
  • Value

• If something makes me happy, I go with it. It's as simple as that.

  

  Ella Henderson
  • Happy
  • Simple

• Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.' Just the other day, I was having lunch with my mom, and she said, 'You've taught me so much. You are so resilient.'

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
  • Time
  • She
  • Career

• Acting is actually private.

  

  Joan Chen

• If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music
  • Rock

• Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives.

  

  Alan Huffman
  • Lit

• I'll never forget the first concert I basically went to. Actually, Sonny and Cher was my first concert, but U2 was my first real concert. I was 17 and saw them at JFK Stadium and had really crappy seats.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Real

• I wanna do movies that in ten years time people will respect me for, as an actor. So if I do take two years off or three years off, the next movie I have that comes out you want people to go 'ooh, that's Frankie Muniz's new movie, it's gonna be a good movie cause he's in it.'

  

  Frankie Muniz
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

  

  David Wenham

• I love art. My sister is an artist and my mother is a painter, so it is very much in the family. I haven't ever wanted to be a fine artist myself - my sister robbed me of my artistic talent, I think.

  

  Douglas Booth
  • Family
  • Art
  • Mother

• Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

  

  David Mamet
  • Drama

• I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.

  

  Monica Ali
  • Book
  • Excited
  • Introducing

• I'm convinced after spending three weeks in China and Tibet, unless the United States gets its act together, our grandchildren will be living in a world dominated by the People's Republic. China is simply inexorable in its pursuit of wealth, growth and power. It cares little about human rights, democracy, labor protections, fair trade rules or the environment. It is relentless in advancing its national interests.

  

  Mort Kondracke
  • Together
  • Democracy
  • Interest

• Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme . . . and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood.

  

  John Money
  • Sports
  • Disaster
  • Temperament

• The reason the first three Star Wars movies were so terrific, and the second three sucked so bad, is actually very simple. The first three were about rebels, shooting guns and driving fast, and speaking with American accents. The second three were about politicians, discussing treaties and holding court, and speaking with British accents.

  

  Bill Whittle
  • Politicians
  • Accents
  • Star Wars

• I won't say they're all intolerant, ... Some of them are adopting our approach to cultural communities.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • Adopting
  • Intolerant
  • Cultural Communities