Peter Jennings Quotes

Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

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• I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs, near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about, because this was the new world that was emerging.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Live
  • Future

• Winning is everything in Hollywood.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Winning
  • Hollywood

• Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Culture
  • Class
  • Conservative

• I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
  • Piano
  • Tour

• The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Truth
  • Brain
  • Details

• I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Knew
  • Wrote

• I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.

  

  Edmund White
  • Thought
  • Special
  • Mission

• I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.

  

  Barbara Eden
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  • Good Company

• I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Hollywood
  • Back
  • Come

• People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • People
  • Work
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• I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

  

  Nas
  • World
  • Amazing
  • Achievement

• In school I was always the funny-looking, tall, skinny kid that got made fun of because of my weird teeth.

  

  Lara Stone
  • School
  • Fun
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• Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • World
  • Future
  • Know

• I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job is because I couldn't have my family there - the family had to stay in town. I just wasn't willing to do that.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Family
  • Job
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• We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Influence
  • Events
  • Escape

• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Truth
  • Simple
  • Never

• I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Interested
  • Slickness

• All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.

  

  James Baldwin
  • Trying
  • Growing
  • Wonder

• I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

  

  David Copperfield

• To me, the screenplay only becomes the Bible of the film after the actors have been cast. You go over the initial script with them and listen to the way they talk. Then you try to do a rewrite to accommodate them.

  Dito Montiel
  • Bible

• I had the impression from reading English literature that British women were great beauties, and I only had seen Julie Christie, and she was gorgeous and sexy. I don't know whether it was just my taste, but when I got to London, I went two years without seeing a truly attractive woman. A lot of near misses.

  

  Walter Kirn
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  • Women
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• I have low self-esteem and I always have. Guys always cheated on me with women who were European-looking. You know, the long-hair type. Really beautiful women that left me thinking, 'How I can I compete with that?' Being a regular black girl wasn't good enough.

  

  Lil' Kim
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  • Thinking
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• Whatever you may think of Mrs. Clinton as a character, I think she believes quite strongly in public service.

  

  Peter Jennings
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