Peter Saul Quotes
I try to find a subject that is interesting to me and to the viewer both. If I can't, then I stop right there.
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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For me, I am left leaning when it comes to health and education, on the right when it comes to defense. So I don't know where I come on the political spectrum. And I think this the challenge that a lot of Jordanians have to deal with.
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It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Years ago, I carved out an identity, and it has always been about having a voice to tell people about stuff I love.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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I started in theatre, and that took me into film and television.
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It's hard making people sitting in hotel rooms interesting.
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When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.
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What I promise to my actors, and to my director, is to give them the salary and everything they need.
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I'm interested in how innocence fares when it collides with hard reality.
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I try to find a subject that is interesting to me and to the viewer both. If I can't, then I stop right there.
