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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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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We don't have a revenue problem in Annapolis. We have a spending problem we need to control.
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You rarely pay the rent by doing Shakespeare or Ibsen.
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I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.
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With the accent, it's an internal dialogue that Southerners have with themselves. We kind of carry around that shame, that feeling of being inferior to the North. I think I did lose some of the accent for a while. Because when I was a graduate student, I was terrified at having to get up in front of a roomful of smart New York kids.
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I think everything worked out the way it was supposed to. Mark's happier. I'm sober. There are still phone calls to be made, people I need to say something to. But everyone from Creed who I've offended or hurt, I ask for their forgiveness.
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I'm a relationship kind of girl. I like a twosome. Some people get excited about being single. I don't.
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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.
