Peter Sis Quotes
My father documented on film for the last time what Tibet looked like before the world got there.
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
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A lot of the time we think finances are immediately linked to experience, opportunities, image, and all sorts of important things that can progress us in life. Sometimes they're not. Finances can be completely irrelevant if you allow yourself to feel like things are going well.
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GM has never been about feeding the world or tackling environmental problems. It is and has always been about control of the global food economy by a tiny handful of giant corporations. It's not wicked to question that process. It is wicked not to.
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My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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I definitely had a hard time leaving for college because I'm not much of a risk-taker.
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In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.
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I love acting so much that I have to have that as much as I have to have my time with my kid.
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
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When I graduated from Parsons School of Design, the dean at that time said I would never be a designer. Obviously I didn't listen.
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As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.
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I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.
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The only time my workout goes a little haywire is when I'm travelling.
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
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Because it started as an offshoot of al Qaeda in Iraq, ISIL has long been subject to U.N. sanctions, and all countries have a legal obligation to freeze its assets and prohibit its business dealings. But countries around the world need to do more to make these sanctions work.
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We have the best sporting event in the world in polo, and yet it is weak.
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The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.
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Although I went to college in the United States - Carleton in Northfield, Minnesota - I returned to the Middle East for a year in 1970-71 to study at the American University of Beirut.
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Remember, I am not trying to orbit the earth. It is a simple elevator ride for 20 minutes.
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My father was a self-employed textile agent, and the shop below his office was an art gallery.
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People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.
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My father documented on film for the last time what Tibet looked like before the world got there.
