Peter De Vries Quotes
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
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I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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I'm not a big fan of romantic comedies, believe it or not.
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We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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Almost everyone will find something in our services worth paying for.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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I took classes taught by an elderly woman who wrote children's stories. She was polite about the science fiction and fantasy that I kept handing in, but she finally asked in exasperation, 'Can't you write anything normal?'
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Tone matters more than words.
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You shouldn't talk about yourself all the time - most of us aren't for sale. Our books are. Talk about them. It's not a question of whether or not you're fascinating on a personal level - it's that your trivia and trials might not have any connection to the tone, tenor and sense of your books.
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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
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The set for 'Blade Runner' was maybe the hardest set I've ever worked on because I think we worked 50 nights in a row, and it was always raining.
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I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
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I'm the kind of person who always wants more.
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My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.
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It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.
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They have truly dedicated their entire lives to making a positive difference in the lives of each child at Nazareth.
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Caterpillar exported $20 billion of goods in 2011, all by American hands and American workers, to all over the world. In order to do that, we have to create jobs in all those countries that we export to, to be able to sell there.
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If a kid is reading a book about someone who looks like them but doesn't talk like them, we stunt their growth by dissing them.
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I think if you start to think too much about things that are completely out of control, it will just drive you crazy as an actor.
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The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
