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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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.
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From the age of 15 to 50, I'd hardly stepped out of a kitchen. I just wanted to live a little, to spend time with my wife and children. The first time I saw snow was when I was 50, because I'd never had the time before.
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We should make it a crime even to attempt to pollute. Our children should grow up next to parks, not poison.
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
