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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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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For some reason, people find me funny. It's quite hard to define why a thought is funny. It's even harder to define why a person would be funny. It's a word that I can't define at all. But whether I know quite what it is or not, I seem to be it.
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Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.
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Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance off us lightly...Perhaps it's a good time to reconsider pleasure at its roots. Changing out of wet shoes and socks, for instance. Bathrobes. Yawning and stretching. Real tomatoes.
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I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.'
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Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.
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I always point people to the article '1,000 True Fans' by Kevin Kelly. If you choose your thousand ideal customers or readers properly and find the single author blog that targets that audience, you never have to do any more marketing. You're done. That is a lesson that very few product developers and marketers have learned, and it's unfortunate.
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That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.
