Peter Guber Quotes
Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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I know I'm never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn't go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.
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As long as there is a mathematical chance, we have to keep on going.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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I am a Zionist.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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I enjoyed listening to it, but I didn't think I could do it.
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I think it would have been a lot better for him to say, I did it and I'm sorry, McGwire was never one to show a lot of emotion on the field, not a player who sought attention and craved to be thought of as a nice guy.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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'Collaborator' is a hostage tragicomedy, but it's also, kind of, everything I know about post-war America. Well, not everything, but it does reference a lot of the post-war period.
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You can coddle your child and tell them, 'You're the best no matter what.' But in the end, when they go out into the real world, I think it's pretty tough out there and other children are cruel.
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Moving up and fighting the best keeps me hungry.
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When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at something.
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Nothing replaces being in the same room, face-to-face, breathing the same air and reading and feeling each other's micro-expressions.
