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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If I had been in President Obama's shoes, I would have acted more decisively and strongly against ISIS.
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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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I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.
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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 feel very comfortable with the U.K. tone and humour and laid-back attitude.
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There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.
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But I care about the reader, and I'm trying to keep the reader's attention for as long as I can.
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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.
