Peter Landesman Quotes
Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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You shouldn't put your hands on a woman. Simple as that.
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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All peoples have evolved extraordinarily precise ways of settling issues about the things that matter to them.
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There's no one who has been living for centuries.
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This historically has been an issue that both parties have run away from. For the first time, Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party in its platform are making this issue, about needing to do better as a country to take common sense steps to help prevent gun violence.
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We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.
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What I tell young writers is to find those things that you're so passionate about that your energy doesn't run away.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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Maybe everyone is a little too reassuring that things are going to be OK to college graduates. It gives them a false sort of security.
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Life is itself an occupational hazard. Sometimes the things we love hurt us. Embracing and navigating around that contradiction is part of what it is to be alive.
