Peter Brook Quotes
Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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The cool thing about my profession is that I can do it until the day I die.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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Putin must be punished for violating the Budapest Memorandum, and Russia must learn that the U.S. will isolate it if it insists on acting like a rogue nation.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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No one person is an island.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
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A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.
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I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.
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Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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Do not accept what you hear by report, do not accept tradition, do not accept a statement because it is found in our books, nor because it is in accord with your belief, nor because it is the saying of your teacher. Be lamps unto yourselves. Those who, either now or after I am dead, shall rely upon themselves only and not look for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who shall reach the topmost height.
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Tradition itself, in times of dogmatism and dogmatic revolution, is a revolutionary force which must be safeguarded.
