Diana Peterfreund Quotes
Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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Sometimes I go to movies, and it's just a bombardment, and I'm not entertained by them - I'm assaulted by them! And I know I sound like such a drama queen, but I find that really strange.
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
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If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I don't watch TV.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states.
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If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
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I hate birthdays.
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My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.
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I didn't watch a lot of TV growing up; I watched more films.
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A location-aware tablet will let us use what's called geodesign to compose participatory, what-if scenarios onsite, using maps that several people can share - something we could always do with paper but that's been a challenge with digital maps in the field.
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There is always a certain glamour about the idea of a nation rising up to crush an evil simply because it is wrong. Unfortunately, this can seldom be realized in real life; for the very existence of the evil usually argues a moral weakness in the very place where extraordinary moral strength is called for.
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You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.
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There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.
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Everybody thinks people who promote PETA don't eat meat, but I think animals were made to be eaten.
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When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher.
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I didn't know what to expect, having not been an artist before. From the outside, you only see romantic snapshots of what seems like a great lifestyle, and it is, but it's also grueling.
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Amazing how being bathed in arterial blood can wash out any lingering romantic disappointments.
