Peter Mullan Quotes

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

Peter Mullan

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• I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Think
  • Creative
  • More

• I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Decision

• The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • Together
  • Peace

• Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Life
  • May
  • You

• He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • True
  • Imagination

• If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Economic

• If I like something, I will pick it up from anywhere and wear it. I don't believe that only branded stuff looks good on you. If it doesn't look good in my eyes, I'll never wear it.

  

  Kajol
  • Up
  • Good
  • Believe

• I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Popular
  • Vilifies

• The book is like the spoon, scissors, the hammer, the wheel. Once invented, it cannot be improved. You cannot make a spoon that is better than a spoon... The book has been thoroughly tested, and it's very hard to see how it could be improved on for its current purposes.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Book
  • You
  • Better

• I don't mind running; I don't mind taking a few knocks. But hopefully, it's just not 'Sam's an action dude.' That, to me, is not what I wanted. I wanted to bring a sense of weight and emotionality of doing Australian films and bring that into a bigger blockbuster, so you're not just kind of grunting and groaning and running around.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Hopefully

• Cricket is just something that I am good at, just like various people are good at various things. What's lucky is that cricket gets enormous publicity.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Cricket
  • Publicity

• When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Believe
  • Band
  • Greatest

• One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Inspiration
  • Hero
  • Flamingo

• Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

  

  Feist
  • Music
  • Think
  • Berlin

• The Small Faces was such a different band than the Faces. I know three of us are the same, but when you take Steve Marriott out, it's a very different band.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Different
  • Small
  • Band

• Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Men
  • Women
  • Feminist

• Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...' But in high school, I realized I could study creative writing in college and actually pursue it as a viable career.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• I love cooking. There is nothing I like better than going home and cooking my family a nice meal. Anything with pasta! Pasta with butter! I have a good repertoire, and I can do quite a few different dishes. Sometimes they work out and sometimes not.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Work
  • Different

• The book business is hidebound.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Business
  • Book

• My dad is a civil engineer, and my mom is a stay-at-home mom. The fact that my parents weren't really involved in music was kind of good, because it meant that I had something that was private and personal.

  

  Lorde
  • Good
  • Music
  • Home

• Think about how much fashion profits from black culture and how underrepresented we are in the industry. If you insist on using black celebrities to peddle your merchandise and add a cool factor to your front row, it is indecent to not care about the plights of that person's community.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Black
  • Culture
  • Community

• We had an argument, and he told me to be home at midnight, and I said no. And so when I did come home, the door was locked. And I had gotten a set of luggage for graduation that day, and it was on the front porch, packed. He thought that he was going to prove a point and I was going to say, 'Oh, I'm sorry, Daddy, I'm sorry'.

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • Home
  • Door
  • Sorry

• The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

  

  Peter Mullan