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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There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace.
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One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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No one told Miles Davis or BB King to pack it in. John Lee Hooker played literally up to the day he died. Why should pop musicians be any different?
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My inspiration is always what I think my fans want to listen to. I often write about social problems. If I'm not going through it or I haven't gone through it, I want to make sure it touches someone. That's what I base my music on.
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At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships.
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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.
