Peter Jackson Quotes
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I hate being called an 'icon.' I just don't like it. That's all there is to it.
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It's such a Bore Being always Poor.
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I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.
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Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope.
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Adolescence, that swampy zone between safety and power, is best patrolled by adults armed with sense and mercy, not guns and a badge.
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Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.
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I understand how bureaucracies work. And that's important because our government has become a vast, huge, bloated, corrupt bureaucracy.
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I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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I spend 90 percent of my time saying no, and my accountant yells at me for it, but when I started in this business, I wanted my career to have legs.
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There is definitely a sense that when you, as a CIA ops officer... are handling assets, they are delivering to you their trust and their well-being. And you feel very protective of them, even if they're not very nice people.
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My mom read French 'Elle' when I was a little girl, and so, when I was 15 or 16, I said, 'I want to work in fashion.'
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My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.
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I keep my scrapbooks in the car. When I come to a stoplight, I start looking through my past. Sometimes I wish the red lights were longer.
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I love being able to change from big films to small films.
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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
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When you’re a charmer people respond they can’t see the hidden agenda you got going on
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
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In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.
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Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.
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What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have dire consequences for Social Security and Medicare.
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It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out.
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The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.
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I'm a Derek and Dereks don't run
