Peter Weir Quotes
The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
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There are more than 200,000 people in Maputo who are nothing more than parasites.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
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I don't know what I've done that has made people so interested in me, more than anyone else.
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There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.
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I'm a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It's just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It's hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped, really.
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Being talked about like a package - I feel like that all the time.
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I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.
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Obviously, not playing a game before playoffs is something that happened, but especially going into the playoffs, you try to feel yourself out, where you're at, and then get right into game tempo and jump right in and play where you were before the injury.
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I love 'Game of Thrones' just as much as I love watching the NFL; I think a lot of fans do, too.
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If Amy Winehouse was a beehive, then I guess I'm a blonde bob.
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I'm private because I want to be private.
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New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Club and Studio 54. When you're living in New York, you are just bombarded with style, trying to figure out how to be cool and how to feel relaxed at the same time.
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If I was producing something, it wouldn't make sense to me to cast somebody because of who their father is because that doesn't put anyone in the seats in the theatre. I wouldn't go to a movie because that person's father is so and so.
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The best conversation with Stanley Kubrick is a silent one: you sit in a theatre and watch his films and you learn so much.
