Peter Hall Quotes
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Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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It's very important for cities all around the world to reinvent themselves, and Glasgow is a good example of that. The Scots are very nice. I don't think they are burdened by their history.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?
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I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene Kelly, people say, 'Ah yes, they good.' Maybe one day, they remember Jackie Chan that way.
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At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.
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Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.
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I might cook occasionally, but I'm not a good cook. That's not my passion.
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This is a bipartisan effort. This is just good common sense. This is where the public wants us to go. They want us to not be so dependent on foreign oil.
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I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.
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I feel good not just physically but as a person because I know I accomplished my goal, which everybody said I couldn't do in Venezuela.
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There's only two kinds of actors - good ones and bad ones... and lucky ones and unlucky ones.
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There are thousands of good-looking women out there. Longevity for a heroine doesn't come only with good looks: talent matters.
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I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together.
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I think that with beauty, people jump to the end instead of starting from the beginning with a good lotion or prep.
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Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.
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I am constantly interested in people who society calls 'bad' because I don't like to just buy into something that everybody's going to say. I want to investigate that for myself. With a character, you get to fully investigate that emotionally and understand the parts of them that are in pain and scared and are good. That's human.
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I believe firmly in God's control in life.
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In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties.
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Honest intention will not cure faulty practice.
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You want a car to go for hundreds of miles, and that's what a battery is good for,
