Peter Bart Quotes
The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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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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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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I enjoy music so much; it's such a passion in my life, and I hope that comes across.
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I am proud of my kids and happy to brag about their achievements. Their success has been an immense source of happiness for me.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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People forget that YouTube is the second-largest search site on the Web. It just tells you the power of how many people live on YouTube.
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I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.
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Hyatt lost its appeal because it was too big a machine. It's easy to systematize economies of scale, but you slowly lose who you are.
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Sometimes you have to put your balls on the line.
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The model today is that as much as 70 percent of the financing of the picture would come from overseas. Now we're beginning to run out of suckers, because there are not that many people overseas who are willing to put up more than half the money for a movie.
