Peter V. Brett Quotes

Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.

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• Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Peace
  • Never
  • Quiet

• When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Trouble
  • Need
  • Bank

• 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.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• 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?

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Why
  • Want
  • Technology

• 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.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Happy
  • Campers

• First of all, we haven't always welcomed immigrants.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Always
  • First
  • Immigrants

• 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.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Movie
  • Age

• I've got angels watching out for me.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Me
  • Watching
  • Angels

• 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.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff

• No person with a sense of the dignity of mankind can condone the persecution of the Jewish race in Germany.

  

  Charles Lindbergh

• I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don't have any regrets.

  

  Kevin Pietersen

• 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.

  

  Edward Thorndike
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Food

• 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.

  

  Louis Leterrier
  • People
  • Movie
  • Fear

• I have a preference for writing that deals with domestic issues; even in visual art, I like work that focuses on very small aspects of human life. I like movies that have a very narrow focus. I can see how it might be viewed as limiting, but I don't experience it that way.

  

  Carol Windley
  • Life
  • Work
  • Writing

• My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Work
  • Sleep

• For each detail I include, I throw dozens away. So I guess the first trick is to pick the right details, the most revealing details. Then I think one must simply write quick, clean, bright prose. For me, this means rewriting and rewriting: almost never adding, almost always cutting.

  

  Kevin Crossley-Holland
  • Cutting

• This is really bad to admit but, you know, when you put your name in Google to see how many credits it's got by your name or something. So you put in 'Dolly Wells' and suddenly it goes 'Dolly Wells Feet' or something.

  

  Dolly Wells
  • Bad

• You eat when you're hungry, and I'm not normally hungry in the mornings.

  

  Eric Bristow

• I suspect that perfect happiness is not possible for me. I suppose if I was ever selected for eternal life - the moment I was informed - that would bring me the closest.

  

  Owen King
  • Life
  • Perfect

• One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Done
  • America

• It's very important to me that every person takes away their own meaning from a song, and it's why I don't always love spelling out what a song is about for somebody.

  

  Aubrie Sellers
  • Important
  • Why
  • Song

• If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Write
  • Screenplay

• Not too many years ago, both parties acknowledged that our entitlement commitments were a sword hanging over our heads. But when President George W. Bush tried to begin discussions on Social Security reform, Democrats ridiculed and demonized him and told seniors he was after their nest eggs.

  

  David Limbaugh

• Let people hide in their homes, caged like chickens. Cowards deserve no better.

  

  Peter V. Brett
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