Peter Barris Quotes
I started my career at General Electric in a small office under a guy named Greg Liemandt, and his direct boss was Jack Welch. I would say those two have had the most profound impact on my career.
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.
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For the first time I'm free to be myself.
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Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.
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I don't think a woman riding a motorcycle thinks of herself as doing something that has sex appeal. I think she's trying to replicate for herself an experience that she sees men having.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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Too much negotiating and not enough work on the court – that's what happened to me during the lockout. Too much talking and not enough training. I couldn't put in my usual offseason work routine. I think that all caught up to me, with my Achilles problems.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
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Balancing my career between two industries has never been an issue. I started with a Telugu film and have a soft corner for the south industry, though I've grown up speaking Hindi. I don't think language can be a barrier when it comes to acting. And, since I come from a theatre background, I'm used to memorizing my lines.
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Don’t say: 'They must have something in common, or they would not be called ‘games’' but look and see whether there is anything common to all. For if you look at them, you won’t see something that is common to all, but similarities, affinities, and a whole series of them at that. To repeat: don’t think, but look!
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You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.
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I remember when I was doing 'The Crucible' on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, 'Let's make sure we remember this.'
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I started my career at General Electric in a small office under a guy named Greg Liemandt, and his direct boss was Jack Welch. I would say those two have had the most profound impact on my career.
