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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I can't imagine the American people voting for Hillary Clinton to serve basically the third term of Barack Obama. And I think whoever the Republican primary voters and the delegates nominate, I will support that nominee wholeheartedly against a Hillary Clinton candidacy.
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I'm a comedy snob, and I never want anything that I do to get old.
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I hear actresses talking about this all the time - this idea that you sit in meetings and the studio says, "Well, you can't do that because the audience won't like that. They won't root for you. It's not sympathetic." I think that we've been served this one dish for so long that we believe that it's all that audiences want, but when we test them or throw something out there that has some truth to it, they seem to always respond.
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My dad is Chinese, and my mom is a white American, and they married only ten years after the United States Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal to ban mixed marriages. Imagine that. Marriages between people of different races - now common and accepted - were illegal in many states up until the late Sixties.
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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.
