Peter Shumlin Quotes
You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.
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Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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Fashion breaks my heart.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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War is not merely a political act but a real political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse, a carrying out of the same by other means.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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I am an arm hitter. When you snap the bat with your wrists just as you meet the ball, you give the bat tremendous speed for a few inches of its course. The speed with which the bat meets the ball is the thing that counts.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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I always love that phrase, 'Oh, this is a good idea, but it's execution dependent.' As if anything in life is not execution dependent. Breathing is execution-dependent.
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I've always been able to overcome things, and to this day, it still bugs me that I couldn't overcome a ball to the face. But I think things worked out for the best.
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I feel blessed. To live an artistic life, it's a blessing.
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When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up.
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I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, 'My father would like to see you after the show.' It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, 'Who the hell is he to summon me?'
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You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers.
