Oren Peli Quotes
It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
Quotes to Explore
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I am who I am.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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As a kid, I liked to write, but I didn't think that was a viable career choice. My dream, actually, was to be a white girl rapper and join Salt-N-Pepa - which obviously was a much more viable career choice.
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We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage.
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When I'm home, I'm Daddy, and everything is completely normal.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almost.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I was a huge 'Street Fighter' fan, and I actually still am. The only game I really was good at was 'Street Fighter.'
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Now, product placement, whichever way you look at it, whether you like it or you think it's disgusting, or whatever, it's what it is.
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No, I worked a lot for European television, doing documentaries in Brazil.
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I had an amazing childhood.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
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The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.
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My children are the reason I laugh, smile and want to get up every morning.
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I really do feel like I'm in better shape and look better now - even after having three kids - than I did before.
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Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.
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As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.
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I know I always worked hard on making sure we came out with the best possible product and of course we were working with four other people, you have to balance that as well.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
