Peter Landesman Quotes
As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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I don't want to be polite. I don't think campaigning is polite. That's a disingenuous effort.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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To be successful in struggle requires remembrance of the Creator and the doing of good deeds. This is important because successful struggle demands that there be a kind of social consciousness.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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A lot of artists don't like the sound of their voice. They're put off by it.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.
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Look, all this is about is utilizing the rules of the Senate, using a majority of the senators, to make sure that we get health reform done. We cannot wait another day.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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I try to get the best performance an actor can give.
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The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
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No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.
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And I have one of those very loud, stupid laughs. I mean if I ever sat behind myself in a movie or something, I'd probably lean over and tell myself to please shut up.
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I fantasized being a broadcaster.
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I have to do a better job of picking the spots where I want to attack and picking the right moment when I need to attack.
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As a journalist, as a screenwriter and as a director, I'm trying to tell compelling and truthful stories.
