Peter McWilliams Quotes
Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.
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Broadway is really my life.
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I've had the good fortune of studying the 17th-century art of Amsterdam in preparation for a film.
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Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
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I have worked hard to get where I am.
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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
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Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.
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Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.
