Peter V. Brett Quotes
Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
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I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.
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I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You're able to express yourself.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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I can have an androgynous quality.
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The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.
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The blind old man of Scio's rocky isle.
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People say they are inventing electric cars. Well, where is the electricity coming from? Flowers? Maybe someday. But what is available now is oil and gas.
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I've mostly been a happy-go-lucky kind of guy.
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I'd rather play here in this small bar and just do a good show. Because it's fun and there's no expectations, it's encouragement to be different, do something new.
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The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred, in what one might call the ritual sense of the word. It has something of that transcendental majesty which the churches of all times have given to their Gods.
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I don't act, anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.
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So organic farming practices are something that, to me, are interlinked with the idea of using biodiesel.
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The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.
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[On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he is not Great. They can but scratch at his skin with their mice nails.
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I think people should have fun. And don't get so down on yourself. Enjoy life and be the best person you can be.
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I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.
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The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'
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As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.
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Let others determine your worth and you're already lost, because no one wants people worth more than themselves.
