Peter Morton Quotes
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I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad tracks - and green things started to grow there!
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I like when a girl knows what she looks like and dresses to accentuate those features.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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My mother raised us to think that if we worked hard, and if we put our end of the bargain in, it would work out OK for us.
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I actually always had short hair as a kid, and it's really liberating. I recommend it. It's just very easy. I don't have to brush it.
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I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.
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France is my home; you are my family. I am carrying all of you in my heart.
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I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.
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I wouldn't say one is easier or more difficult, but when you're inside a costume and a mask, you have to endure heat - and, often, difficulty seeing. The vision is not very good in a mask. And you have to cope with that, as well as trying to think about this character.
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Today, when you're marketing a brand, you can't try to appeal to everybody. You should speak to a group of people and create them as loyalists.
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We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.
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Young people are already leading on climate action. I see it at rallies to reject the Keystone XL dirty tar sands pipeline. I see it in the push to demand justice for communities being run over by fracking operations.
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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
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I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for themselves whether they want to be part of China or not. But this view isn't shared by most Chinese, or even the leaders of most Western democracies. As long as the Communist Party is in power, there is little hope for Tibet.
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When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.
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People ask me if there are going to be stories of Harry Potter as an adult. Frankly, if I wanted to, I could keep writing stories until Harry is a senior citizen, but I don't know how many people would actually want to read about a 65 year old Harry still at Hogwarts playing bingo with Ron and Hermione.
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The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.
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Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying, `We're going to wipe you off the planet.'
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When I was at school, one of my teachers had two statements hanging from the board all year: 'Be observant' and 'Be empathetic.'
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A youth is to be regarded with respect.
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We can't fix the real problems if we only cauterize and don't treat the roots of evil.
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Even the most morbid of the rape ranters have a childlike faith in the perfectibility of the universe, which they see as blighted solely by nasty men. They simplistically project outward onto a mythical 'patriarchy' their own inner conflicts and moral ambiguities.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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I can't cook a thing.
