Peter Mullan Quotes
In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.
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I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
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When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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While I was busy hating Vegas, and hiding from Vegas, a funny thing happened. I grew to love Vegas.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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When poverty shows itself, even mischievous boys understand what it means.
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The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.
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Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.
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The Sandinista revolution was without any question a popular insurrection.
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You know, I don't think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn't. Probably because I don't want to start thinking, "Am I popular?" I spent way too much time thinking about that in high school.
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In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
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There's magic all around us: Our smartphones are magical, 3-D printers are magical. So I feel that as a magician, if I can pull off something that seems real and convincing enough that I can explain why it's happening and have people believe it, it really is fascinating. And funny.
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In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.
