Peter V. Brett Quotes
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Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.
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It's kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age.
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I've got angels watching out for me.
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I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.
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The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.
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I think the only way to behave is as if nothing is private. And then fight to make what you care about legal and acceptable.
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No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.
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I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don't have any regrets.
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There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.
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My fear in converting it to 3-D is that people will say, 'Oh, it's the 3-D 'Clash of the Titans.' No, it's 'Clash of the Titans,' the movie, and then, on top of that, you have the 3-D conversion. The 2-D movie works as well as the 3-D movie. I want to make sure that people like the 2-D version.
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
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The important thing is, you must give back. As good as you've been given, you must do for others as well. Somebody helped you. Who can you help, too?
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When I was a child I had a best friend who lived across the road from me. When her mother died unexpectedly it was like losing a member of my own family. I think I am still affected by the memory of that loss.
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I think humor is used a lot of the time to keep people from getting too close. Humor side-steps and shifts the meaning.
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Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.
