Peter Weir Quotes
Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
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There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.
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I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
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I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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We need to do more to conserve fuel or face tougher choices such as steep price increase or even quantitative restrictions.
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We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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I'm worried about looking like a bad person when, in fact, I try to be a good person. I don't like the public image that I've been dressed with and it worries me.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.
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What I do onstage, there's maybe .0001 percent of the population that acts like that. I talk like that because it makes me laugh, and because I know a couple of people that talk like that. They're really that Southern. And they do funny things. I love 'em; they're awesome. They're good people.
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I love to post behind-the-scenes photos of what is really going on. My twitter friends really seem to like that and the great thing is I can deliver them information right away.
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Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
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When I was growing up... I'm not going to say I listened to everything, but when it comes to vocals, I was really adamant about imitating all kinds of voices.
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The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where the work is.
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I'm proud of my office. I'm proud of the work that we do.
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The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.
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You have to continue to grow and evolve as individuals in order for your marriage to evolve. It takes two pillars to support a structure. If those two pillars become one, you have a structure that teeters.
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Normally as a director, you do look at other films and things that are relevant. But with this film, it became impossible because I became so aware of the camera placement.
