Peter Segal Quotes
The rules I go by are: Always keep your villains bad, and keep the plot grounded and real. If you keep those stakes, the comedy will bounce off that and work.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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I always wanted to be normal. I tried really hard, but it's like I try so hard and then people still say I'm offbeat. I've learnt to accept that and take advantage of it as an actor.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.
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Horses and horsepower alike are about status and being cool.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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The Premier League is very difficult football and very different to when you play in Europe, but the player has to have experience to adapt, and this is the key point.
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Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.
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I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.
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When you as a designer design something that burdens a community with maintenance and old world technology, basically failed developed world technology, then you will crush that community way beyond bad design; you'll destroy the economics of that community, and often the community socially is broken.
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I think there are moral obligations, and I think there are economic transactions. So I think that chores are good; I think that allowances are good. I think combining them is bad.
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People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.
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The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.
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I really like acting but, just now, the more I read a script I find myself thinking I'd like to direct rather than act.
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One of the technology lessons was to work inside the cost envelope of the developing world to lower costs overall. What's even more important and useful is dramatically lowering power consumption. Everyone wants batteries that can last 10 times longer.
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The rules I go by are: Always keep your villains bad, and keep the plot grounded and real. If you keep those stakes, the comedy will bounce off that and work.
