Peter Stone Quotes
Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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Man knows so much and does so little.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a R rating, but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?
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It's not my job to judge or assess. I think single, black, white, married - people are doing the best they can.
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If you consistently write 'The sun set' rather than 'The sun sank slowly in the bright western sky,' your story will move three times as fast. Of course, there are times you want the longer version for atmosphere - but not many. Wordiness not only kills pace; it bores readers.
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Arresting development, attacking science, and glorifying poverty is not the answer to the vices that attend prosperity.
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When I visit businesses across New Hampshire, they tell me that their No. 1 need is even more highly skilled workers to fill job openings.
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Our problem at the moment is a problem of success.
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It's really important for me to get across to our fans that whenever I put myself in different circumstances. It is to learn from it so I can relay it to others.
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Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.
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It is God's planet - and he's taking care of it. And I don't believe that anything we do will raise or lower the temperature one point.
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My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.
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The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.
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I am a variety machine; I look for variety in my characters, and an extra edge in the characterisation helps in bringing out a better performance.
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I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.
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Moreover, in the experimental sciences, the scientific fraternity must test a new theory to destruction, if possible.
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.
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My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
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Then there's the joy of getting your desk clean, and knowing that all your letters are answered, and you can see the wood on it again.
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It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In fact, the major media more resembles a propaganda machine than it does a free press.
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Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.
