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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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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Your future takes precedence over your past. Focus on your future, rather than on the past.
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To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.
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Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own.
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One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.
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When I speak of the erotic, then I speak of it as an assertion of the life force of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.
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I've learned... That money doesn't buy class.
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I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back.
