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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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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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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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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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least in a fleeting way, I got all those things.
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America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.
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A banker who is allowed to borrow money at X and loan it out at X plus Y will just go crazy and do too much of it if the civilization doesn't have rules that prevent it.
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People asked me to change my name for [808s]...I think the fact that I can't sing that well is what makes "808s" so special.
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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.
