Peter Landesman Quotes
I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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Music gave me something that was not only good for me - it gave me something to work on, something to be proud of and something that I really loved and have a love for - but also music was good for other people because you put joy into the world.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.
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Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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Well, we all have murderous thoughts throughout the day, if not the week.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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Russia holds a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. This is a privilege, and it is a responsibility. Yet in Syria and in Aleppo, Russia is abusing this historic privilege.
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I would only take a role that I know I'm comfortable in and I can do. I've turned down plenty of things because I'd feel it's not me, and I wouldn't want to come on someone's project and flip that.
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Sometimes you're famous before you're good.
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I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
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In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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Fashion is being 'you.' It is a form of expression.
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If the quality and quantity of continuous effort toward goals matters as much as I think it does, we may actually get more productive, not less, as we get older - even if we can't pull all-nighters like we used to.
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I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.
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Sit up, join up, get on line, get in touch, find out who's raising hell and join them. No use waiting on a bunch of wussy politicians.
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They say they're not going to go with replacements, (but) we'll see. They'll change their mind overnight.
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I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.
