Peter Mandelson Quotes
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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Is there a doctor in the house? My parents want me to marry you.
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Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiquity, when gladiators were pitted against each other and the legions of Spartacus were crucified in endless rows on the way to Rome.
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I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not to be a ballet dancer, actually, but I thought it was a complement for an actor. I thought that actors should know how to move, should know how to juggle, should know how to do acrobatics.
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This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.
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But I'm an actor and I like to just keep working.
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The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
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Fixing things around the house was the last bastion of manliness. But now, even that is getting taken away. As women become more economically independent, they are starting to fix things around the house for themselves.
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If you go to pilot then you are probably going to go to series. That's my feeling about it.
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Now, the typical way you make good things happen in Washington is you find a bunch of wealthy companies who agree with you.
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Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
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I began singing in dive bars and really small clubs. I dragged my piano down the stairs, and I went down the street with my keyboard, and I would go to every different dive bar that I could get to agree to let me play. I'd call and pretend I was Lady Gaga's manager.
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
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Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly.
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I myself smoke, but my wife asked me to speak today on the harmfulness of tobacco, so what can I do? If it’s tobacco, then let it be tobacco.
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When I was young, I assumed that authors must have traveled the world or done exotic things in order to tell great stories.
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I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.
