Peter Sis Quotes
I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
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If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.
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I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world.
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Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
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I think sometimes you are born with a song.
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I see ghosts.
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In a well-functioning democracy, citizens have the option of voting their political masters out of office. Not so in most companies.
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Buenos Aires is less than an hour's drive from the ranch, and in the evening, we might meet friends for dinner there. I get recognised a bit, but I'm lucky that polo isn't as popular as other sports.
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I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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Superstition is marked not by its pretension to a body of knowledge but by its method of seeking truth.
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His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's hard air, with the fraternity of knowing I will also be so.
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Large elements in Congress and the public were willing to fight for victory but wanted to be very sure that the struggle was not contaminated by any moral principles.
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I, being the ham that I am, always want people looking at me.
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What happens in New York affects national policy in very significant ways.
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To be a philanthropist, you don't have to be Nelson Mandela. You just have to look around you and ask, 'What little bit can I do? Whose life can I touch?'
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I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world
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I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.
