Peter Mullan Quotes
A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.
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The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.
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Monologues are self-verifying and self-referencing, a world in their own right, one with its own internal logic that strengthens with reiteration.
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Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.
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The CWC is a professional organization for professional writers. Non-published writers are welcome as associate members.
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My most famous commercial was for Fruit Of the Loom underwear. I took a lot of razzing from my classmates.
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I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.
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I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.
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He who labours, prays.
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Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.
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I'm very pessimistic.
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You don't want to be too hot in the club. And ambience is important - no fog machines.
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My sister said, You're making it hard for all us housewives in Nebraska.
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Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker' and people saying 'OMG, I can so relate to this - this is a guy that I fancy, or a girl that I fancy; it's exactly like this person.'
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When your mother dies, you're not a little girl any more.
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I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.
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Every work of art is the child of its age and, in many cases, the mother of our emotions. It follows that each period of culture produces an art of its own which can never be repeated.
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My dad wanted to name me after Rainier Maria Rilke, the poet.
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Most people in archeology find their specialties in strange and unique ways. I always wanted to do archaeology, and then the time came for me to actually be in the field, and it was excruciatingly boring. Excavation is really, really boring.
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It's so different when you change your hair color, you're treated so differently. It's a very funny experience. It's fun - I love changing up my hair.
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My entry into screenwriting was not smooth.
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It's a very selfish time. When I'm here at home, my responsibilities are far greater. I'm forced to be way more selfless. My priorities are so far down the list that it's hard to see them. And yet, when I'm on tour, I basically have to get the show right, every night, but the days are really constructed around selfish activities for self-improvement, or not. That's where I feel guilty because I know that life is going on full-speed when I'm not around.
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
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A script is utterly useless in and of itself; it's only of any worth the minute your actors, your designers, your directors come into being.
