Peter Stone Quotes
It seems to me that everybody who's a success has made a decision to put themselves in a situation that eats away at their privacy. Their hours just don't end. Now, with actors it's extreme, because their privacy is almost nonexistent.
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Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
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In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.
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Readers are very, very savvy, and I don't want to insult them by making them think I'm too lazy to get it right.
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
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You had eight years before President Trump, a situation where the opposition party basically ran in opposition to the president on a platform of thinly based racism. That doesn't mean that the politicians themselves were outright racist, but when charges of birtherism came up, no one repudiated it.
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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I am a friend of Adventist people and a lover of truth.
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When it starts to seem like you have popped into bed with a specific party, it makes it difficult for people to believe you are not doing someone else's bidding for them.
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I don't wanna' wonder whether you love me I don't wanna' wonder whether you care
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Coming back doing interviews is weird. It’s like an actor who takes a year off and just goes home, settles down, does some gardening, wakes up in the morning, worries about what to have for breakfast, then suddenly you’re plonked back in the middle of it all.
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I don't think if you asked any of my childhood friends they would say that I had a weird childhood; they might say there weren't a lot of regular rules, the conversations in the house were always very open, dreams were a great thing to talk about, everybody was making something all the time.
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When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.
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The biggest thing I think is, 'It's OK to care. It's OK to want to win and to be that team. To be upset when we lose.'
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In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.
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Kids listen to everything on the Internet.
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I already had a lot of friends at school who didn't care about the whole acting thing, so there was no reason for me to not be in school.
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In grief, after even the happiest of relationships, we go over things again and again.
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I think we all change each other's paths. I don't know which law idea that is in physics, but I don't think any of us can live without affecting one another.
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On refusing to make alterations to one of his plays: Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
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Men think epilepsy divine, merely because they do not understand it. We will one day understand what causes it, and then cease to call it divine. And so it is with everything in the universe.
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I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
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It seems to me that everybody who's a success has made a decision to put themselves in a situation that eats away at their privacy. Their hours just don't end. Now, with actors it's extreme, because their privacy is almost nonexistent.
