Pete Ploszek Quotes
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I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
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There may be 10 odd things which I want to do as an actor, and we get an opportunity also, but I need to be sure whether the person I am trusting or the role that I am relying on - is it the correct one?
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I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.
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Everybody likes a compliment.
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The magnificent cosmos is a palace that has the sun and the moon as its lamps and the stars as its candles; time is like a rope or ribbon hung within it, on to which the Glorious Creator each year threads a new world.
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Hong Kong people say Hong Kong needs to preserve its uniqueness. I say Hong Kong's uniqueness is in its diversity, its tolerance of difference cultures... China does not want to see Hong Kong in decline. I have full confidence in its future.
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I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
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One of the strengths of Adani is that, because we are controlling mines, ships, ports and logistics, we are the cheapest solution provider for end users.
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I don't consider myself a fashion designer.
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I was a ballet dancer growing up and that's what I was convinced I would be.
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I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.
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The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price.
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'Society's Child' was a real hard record to start with. That's all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important.
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The Chili Peppers do a lot of improvising, but it's within the framework of song structures. The Meatbats is from a purely instrumental standpoint. But when you hear the term 'instrumental music' you think it's real serious stuff and everybody's playing a million notes and it's about playing fast. That's not what we do.
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It was a real sort of synergistic 'Aha!' moment when I started acting.
