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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Every dude needs a well tailored suit. I'd say well tailored suit, a leather jacket, and a pair of jeans that really fit are vital in your wardrobe.
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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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I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.
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My mother, Robin Bell, is the master of balancing the finite line between classic and creative when it comes to fashion. Mom has no qualms about unleashing the pinking shears on a vintage Givenchy dress if it means she'll wear it more once it's sleeveless.
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I try to just be the person I am, with a lot of sensitivity to the genre in which I'm playing.
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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Enjoy the films I do, get entertained, get your money's worth, and when you leave the theatre, leave it all behind!
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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.
