Pete Ploszek Quotes
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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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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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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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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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for 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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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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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 took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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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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Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director
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You do the policy, I'll do the politics.
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Flashback episodes are a tried-and-true sitcom device, but they always work!
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Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they might use through my observations of real life.
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It was a real sort of synergistic 'Aha!' moment when I started acting.
