Peter Bart Quotes
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
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I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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In very simple language, Morrie always seems to be able to explain something that other people would take a chapter for, you know.
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Every city is always changing, on its own trajectory.
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One cannot plan for the unexpected.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don't know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there's something in me that wanted to perform.
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I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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I don't think I'm a good dancer.
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I loved school so much that most of my classmates considered me a dork.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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What I get a bit angry about is the image of women.
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When I was thinking of video ideas for this song, I wanted it to reflect the energy of the music and express the big eye roll that 'Sit Here and Cry' is. I had a very specific visual vision for it, and when I saw Sam Siske's reel, I knew he was going to get it.
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I'm not going to go to a producer that's going to take me in a studio and charge me my whole budget and give me a fake head nod. I'm just trying to make good music. I appreciate everybody that's supporting me.
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The Prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the old Italian painting of a martyr whose intestines are slowly unwound from his body on a reel.
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Part of the reason that I left the Pumpkins is because it was becoming all-consuming. Being the only member of that band who had two kids and a wife, it was a hard decision, but ultimately it was a decision I'm comfortable with.
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Yes, we're in a protectionist era because when you have lack of domestic growth, everybody tries to unload the problem on foreigners with protectionism, devaluations, cutbacks on imports. But is there going to be a dramatic change? TPP is dead anyway, and similar deals in the eurozone are going nowhere.
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That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
