Peter Stone Quotes
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It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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Question the motives of those who make requests of you. Discover what they really want. You may not want to give it.
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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.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm a great jazz fan.
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I think celebrity has become almost normalized. I feel like we all live our lives in a pale imitation of celebrity. With Facebook, we choose a photo that is not too good a photo - we're more arch than that. We're our own celebrity publicists. We understand it so innately.
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I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.
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The difficult part for us is adding features without making the product more complicated.
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By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
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It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It just didn't occur to me, but I knew I had to be in film.
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The relationship between an actress and her director is often a very close one.
