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Peter Temple Quotes

In writing, I'm totally anti-plans of any kind. All my attempts to plan and plot novels have come to grief, and in expensive ways.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: australian
Birth: 1946

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Grief Writing Plan Kind Expensive

In my experience, endorsements by public officials, they don't count for anything.

Experience Anything Count Public

It may sound amazing to people today, but Rodgers and Hammerstein were considered by - how can I put it? - the sort of opinion-making tastemakers and everything to be 'off the scale as sentimental.'

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Today People Amazing Sound May Off

I'm a huge fan of Italian new realism, work by directors like Fellini and Vittorio De Sica. Their image of women is so beautiful.

Work Women Beautiful New Image Fan

Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind.

Got Hardest Making Known Endeavors

I don't take myself too seriously. I think that's something so many actors and people in general tend to do.

Myself People Think Seriously Take

Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male.

Simone de Beauvoir

Woman Man Said Human She Being

Filmmaking is a completely imperfect art form that takes years and, over those years, the movie tells you what it is. Mistakes happen, accidents happen and true great films are the results of those mistakes and the decisions that those directors make during those moments.

Great Art Mistakes Decisions Moments

We necessarily operate in an environment in which there's a great deal of uncertainty. In such an environment, it makes sense to use a risk-management approach to identify and avoid the big mistakes. That's one reason I favor a cautious approach.

Great Mistakes Uncertainty Reason

If I train hard and have a great training camp, and I'm as prepared as I can be, I can take any heavyweight in the world.

Great Training World I Can Train

I thought I was clever by greeting casting agents in my Australian accent and then switching to an American one during the performance. But the Australian accent seemed to put them off. Now it's the opposite; they love Australians. And with my thick Californian accent I now have a problem convincing them I'm Australian.

Jonathan LaPaglia

Love Performance Thought American

Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.

Hope People Small You Big Just

The Greens simply don't understand that a strong economy is the key to a better Victoria for all Victorian families.

Strong Key Better Understand Economy

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