Peter Bart Quotes
Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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What I say is, national defense is the most important thing we do in Washington, but there's still waste in the military budget.
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Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it.
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I'm a loser on Sunday. Yeah, I'm a couch potato. I get up and try and eat and then back on the couch. And watch anything.
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I met Ray Charles at 14, and he was 16. But he was like a hundred years older than me.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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Jews have always thought that having someone elevated with his head above the grass was not good for the Jews. I never felt that way. I believe that you have to stand up.
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Don't let yourself make excuses for not doing the things you want to do.
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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
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When we're obsessed with someone, it's never about them. It's about us hating ourselves. And that's generally the tone of a lot of my videos, which is this desperate character who's overcompensating with being super happy. But she's broken.
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Any change in routine was terrifying, even if it involved less violence rather than more.
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The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence.
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You see. I don't think any new thoughts. I think thoughts that other people have thought, and I rearrange them. But Sara, she thinks thoughts that never were before.
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It doesn't matter that it can't last, that we don't find it more often. To know that there is such perfection, that there has been such perfection - it is worth living for. It exists. It has been - it is. One can contemplate it and feel complete peace.
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What rights are those that dare not resist for them?
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Developer testing is an important step towards accountability. It gives developers a way to demonstrate the quality of the software they produce.
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I hate when I get asked, 'What's it like to be a woman in comics?'
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No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
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Look to the beauty of this day, miracles are all around you.
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Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill done.
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One of the downsides of the job is that I am travelling so much, and I don't have so much time to go out and socialise as people who have a more traditional job might do, so it's hard.
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Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.
