Peter Gould Quotes

I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first thing I had ever written with any political subject matter in it.

Peter Gould

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I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.

Jim Carrey

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Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set.

Jerry Weintraub

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In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.

Robert Harris

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My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.

Anna Deavere Smith

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Trade, migration, and modern communications have given us networks of friends and associates in other countries. We owe them much, but the social contract with our fellow citizens at home brings unique rights and responsibilities that must sometimes take precedence, especially when they are as destitute as the world's poorest people.

Angus Deaton

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The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'

Alvin Dark

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I remember once, years ago, I met Sting, and he told me that he had seen 'Spinal Tap' 50 times. He said: 'Every time I watch it, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.'

Rob Reiner

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After the end of slavery, African-American men were arrested in mass, and they were arrested for extremely minor crimes like loitering, standing around, vagrancy, or the equivalent of jaywalking - arrested and then sent to prison and then leased to plantations.

Michelle Alexander

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I remember I used to think my dad was really cool working at a factory. He used to make buttons. I used to brag, 'This button here, My dad made it.' There was this sense of pride. It's knowing your dad is doing something cool.

Michael Pena

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My weight always fluctuates by 10 pounds.

Miranda Lambert

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There are states with photo ID requirements that don't disenfranchise eligible voters.

Jason Kander

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The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think.

Don Tapscott

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