Peter V. Brett Quotes
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I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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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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I'm helping people think the clarinet is cool.
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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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As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.
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But then when I'm in a halfway successful movie, it irritates the hell out of the critics in New York, because they'd like to kill my pictures if they could. So maybe I'm pretty good in the movie. Then they use all these words like I'm 'surprisingly' good, or 'shockingly enough,' I'm good. It's like I crawled out from under a magazine and they're surprised I can act.
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HBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can.
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People want more power over their own lives. That's not just true in Britain, it's true around the world.
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Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.
