Peter Stone Quotes
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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Sandy Koufax went to the same school as me. I graduated two years ahead of Sandy.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
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A first kiss is hard to fake on screen. It's tempting to practice before you shoot, but why blow that natural awkwardness on a rehearsal? There's something so beautiful about it that can't be faked.
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I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
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The principle though remains the same, and the important thing is CBS fought hard, very hard, to protect that principle and will fight again.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
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I'm a great jazz fan.
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If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps and strengthens us and never abandons us. He is a true friend.
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If you happen to live close to the desert border, you can pretty much calculate how long it will be before you have to carry your kids away and abandon your home and your life as you know it.
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I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
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The worst hotels are any with a bad bed. I stayed in a hotel where they left cards telling me my enjoyment was of paramount importance. I should have written, 'Nice rooms, crap beds.'
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Change leads to disappointment if it is not sustained. Transformation is sustained change, and it is achieved through practice.
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For years, I felt I was a novelist, but now I know I can write short fiction.
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'Sorry' just fit the bill for the crossover that both Lost Stories and I were attempting to do musically.
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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
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The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.
