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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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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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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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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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 would say I'm self-taught, but Corinne Day made me less conscious of myself. I was 15, and she'd make me take off my top, and I'd cry. After five years, you get used to it, and you're not self-conscious anymore.
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Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.
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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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His speech is a burning fire.
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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 do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.
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We've all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers 'ruining our childhood,' we forget that right now is someone else's childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us.
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I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.
