Oren Peli Quotes
It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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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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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.
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I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.
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As a profession, entrepreneurship breeds anything but balance. The highs can be stratospheric, and the lows can be crushing.
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Now it's easy for someone to set up a storefront and reach the entire world in very modest ways. So these technologies that we thought would dis-intermediate traditional sellers gave more people the tools to be sellers. It also changed the balance of power between sellers and buyers.
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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.
