Bill Peet Quotes
Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.
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But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques - which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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You have to open up on stage.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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I subscribe to the online Urban Dictionary's definition of nerd: 'one whose IQ exceeds his weight'. I'm also keen on the same Urban Dictionary's definition of geek: 'the person you pick on in high school and wind up working for as an adult'. I happily proclaim myself a book nerd/reading geek and proud of it.
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I enjoy the burger joint the same way I enjoy fancy meals.
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'Why did you stop at a red light and let me hit you doin' 80?!'
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There is no nature which is inferior to art, the arts imitate the nature of things.
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You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
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I observe the world and the people surrounding me.
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I think nobody can block me. Nobody can stop me.
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There's no counting the number of times the media have asked, 'Will this be the thing that drives Donald Trump's supporters away from him? Is this finally the time?'
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When I say, 'We're a team,' the reason why I point that out is because at 'All My Children,' that's the mindset. They're a team. And I've said this to other people: They're like a united front.
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You hear stories about directors using manipulation to get actors to do certain things, but I think when you're working with professional actors, it's all about trust. They can do anything you want, it's just a matter of them understanding what you're looking for, and the reason why.
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I have been very blessed with some great songs.
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How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.
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I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, 'Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.'
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His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth
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Beyond each corner, new directions lie in wait.
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Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.
