Peter Bart Quotes
I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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The business part of it can be very vexing. You always have to keep certain metrics and everything. Because all I can do is make a good show.
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Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.
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I respect music, I do. I love it.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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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 feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting.
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Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important.
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How many of you watched the vice presidential debate expecting Sarah Palin to screw up? Be honest. cheers and applause : And how many of you watched the debate expecting Joe Biden to screw up? more cheers and applause : And how many of you watched the baseball game knowing the Cubs would screw up? more applause
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The truth of the matter is the real industry is in LA and the cream of the talent is there.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.
