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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Every young person has to bear the burden - heavier in proportion as the individuality is richer - of accommodating himself to existence now that it is no longer seen with the eyes of a child, the eyes to which everything is as it should be.
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I believe that everyone, regardless of their beliefs, deserves the dignity of being called by their name.
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Inevitably, I think the people that want to work with me are also the people that I want to work with.
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I think people are too hard on the Pistols. The Pistols started the whole punk thing and never saw much money.
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We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light.
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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.
