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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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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Humor can bring people under the tent. And a good joke can deflect some of the intensity surrounding a serious subject.
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In business it's about people. It's about relationships.
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You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.
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We all wish we could stay with one franchise and it work out the way it work out but it doesn't necessarily work that way, but you've got to keep balling.
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I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.
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You want a car to go for hundreds of miles, and that's what a battery is good for,
