Peter Mullan Quotes
The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.
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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.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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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.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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If, however, economic ambitions are good servants, they are bad masters.
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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.
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I like mac and cheese.
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I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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One night I went to see Bobby at the Flamingo. Because he was my hero, I would visit him for inspiration.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.
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Science and religion are two windows that people look through, trying to understand the big universe outside, trying to understand why we are here. The two windows give different views, but they look out at the same universe. Both views are one-sided, neither is complete. Both leave out essential features of the real world. And both are worthy of respect.
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Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
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I'm uncomfortable publicizing myself as a model. I can only say over and over again, 'That's what I do,' and let people make fun of me.
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The painter’s instrument is his armchair.
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The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.
