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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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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Even though Kurt died in the most horrific way possible, there is this mythology and romanticism that surrounds him, because he's 27 forever. The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long. Kurt has gotten to icon status because he will never age. He will always be that relevant in that time and always be beautiful.
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All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.
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I was not inside the bank. But I am still not the only witness.
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I am never quite sure whether I am one of the cinema's elder statesmen or just the oldest whore on the beat.
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Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.
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Freedom is a system based on courage.
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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.
