Peter Finch Quotes
If I'm going through life broke, I might as well live in the company of cheerful idiots like actors.
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The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?
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When I first wrote 'Papa Hemingway,' there were too many people still alive, and the lawyers for Random House didn't want to OK it. But now all that's been filtered away by the passage of all these people. And having the fortune of surviving, I now feel that I am the custodian of what Ernest wanted the world to know about him and these women.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
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I've always been a very prolific writer.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.
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You want to believe in leaders, really believe in leaders. You want what they are saying to be truthful, and you want to trust them.
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I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.
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If I'm going through life broke, I might as well live in the company of cheerful idiots like actors.
