Peter De Vries Quotes
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I take my work seriously.
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I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.
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TV has grown so much. It is like a powerhouse medium.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
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I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
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The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.
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A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.
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I'd originally intended 'Stand By Me' for the Drifters.
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
