Peter Farrelly Quotes
Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.
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I have been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
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I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.
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And the American public was able to make up their own mind whether this verdict was a just verdict or not. So I think there's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works or doesn't work, so I think there's a definite value there.
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When you're still, and some actors are really brilliant at that, you bring a kind of energy to you as opposed to sending the energy out. There are some actors, like Gary Cooper or Kevin Spacey, that are absolutely brilliant - Gene Hackman is another - at being and allowing the audience to just do the work.
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No man is a success in business unless he loves his work.
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Something like 'The Matrix' would be ideal, something where it's super agents and wire work and special effects - not necessarily running from bombs and shooting people. Something more sleek, like an assassin.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
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I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.
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It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.
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Just for you to know, people, models, are very smart. We're investing money in the right way, and, you know, a modeling job I'm taking as a businesswoman. So it's not fun for me; it's work.
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In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.
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Be aware of who in your life is actually interested in hearing you discuss your writing, and who's just asking to be polite. Listening to writers talk about their work is often excruciatingly dull.
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If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have children, of course, you have no choice but to work your tail off to try and protect the future for your children. And that is infused by hope in the end.
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The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates.
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I didn't moisturise when I was younger, but when I got to 27 I decided to start slathering myself in oil, and now I'm obsessed with moisturising.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
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Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.
