Peter Landesman Quotes
When you're researching something for a movie, you get a very different kind of reaction than when you're researching something for an article for 'The New York Times.'
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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I'm a good guy. I love playing bad guys, but good guys that have a good thing going on, I like that, too. I don't like passive good guys.
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Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.
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I've always been drawn to the idea that small choices in our lives could have drastic effects on our future.
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While we know gambling is part of the industry in Las Vegas, we're not going to make it all that easy for you to pick up a ticket, a gambling ticket, on your way into the arena.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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To survive is to win.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had reached past him. Why couldn't they see it? It still puzzles me.
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I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.
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It's important to have people around you with enough confidence to say if you are not acting in a good way. Normally, when you are at the top, people say everything is fantastic. Probably in that moment it is what you want to hear, but it's best to be reminded how to act properly.
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I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.
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Until fighting ends and there are conditions, which allow the free expression of will by the people, there can be no elections and elections are not held in these circumstances anywhere in the world.
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Foxes may be furrier and sexier than rats, but they are still vermin, and need to be controlled and killed. When I consider all the different methods of killing foxes, my view, backed up by Lord Burns, is that hunting with hounds is the most natural way to kill them . We have to be honest about the fact that what really upsets some of my hon. Friends - and, perhaps, some Opposition Members too - is the idea that only toffs go hunting. If only hunters did not wear red coats, things might be different.
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I will take a draft to the Yankees or to the Mets. A draft for president is not conceivable.
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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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When you're researching something for a movie, you get a very different kind of reaction than when you're researching something for an article for 'The New York Times.'
