Peter Landesman Quotes
When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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I don't think I realized the extremes of my proportions until I moved to Paris. I thought I'd be 'normal' as a model, but actually, even in that world, I was at one end of the spectrum.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and I must have had some charisma in the interview, so I ended up in medicine. Being a general practitioner was all I aspired to.
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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
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Marriage is an exercise in torture.
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We are struggling with racism, but racism is also alive and well in many other countries. And what we must overcome is racism being the cause of conflict. And what we need to recognize human beings as human beings; to award merit.
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I've started several small businesses myself and know that it is tough out there for the little guy in the global economy. I came to the conclusion that, oftentimes, the best thing the government can do for small business is to stay out of the way.
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People have the mindset that we have to claim this land from Mother Nature.
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I started teaching when I was in my 20s because Lee Strasberg asked me to, and he didn't do that with a lot of people.
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When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability.
