Peter Farrelly Quotes
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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No day is similar to another, but usually mail is part of my start of the day. Our company never sleeps: we have business in 180 countries, so there are no real mornings or nights.
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I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it from reading, and reading was already my default activity, almost like breathing.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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Gardening is how I relax. It's another form of creating and playing with colors.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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Here's my tip: Have your production hire the best hair stylists on the planet to do your films and commercials, then casually hint about how great it would be to get a trim during lunch break.
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I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.
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I have tremendous admiration for everyone who enters the political arena so long as their goal is to do what they believe is right for the people of New York.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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People don't necessarily expect singles from me. They expect full bodies of work.
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If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best.
