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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She bets the doubles and the parlays, a guaranteed way to stay busted.
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I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine. If they want to think about maybe who one of my exes is, then that's fine. And it might not be right, because I'm the only one who knows what these songs are really about. It's the one shred of privacy I have in the matter.
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It is the contest that delights us, and not the victory.
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Recognizes ever and anon The breeze of Nature stirring in his soul.
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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.
