Peter Weir Quotes

Music stops you from thinking.

Peter Weir

Recitation: by Male by Female

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MusicThinkingYouStops

When 'The Dark Side of the Moon' was a new album in 1973, a friend of mine walked into my room where I was working with a copy in his hand and said, 'You really have to do a play about this album.'

Tom Stoppard

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A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to develop.

Tom Frieden

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I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.

Rob Zombie

SomeoneYouNeverOrderThingsSeen

When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school.

Mary Pope Osborne

LifeCommunityTimeSchoolMeWorld

I try to keep track of what the kids are doing on Soundcloud, and all the new guys coming up.

Mike Dean

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I enjoy talking to fans.

Douglas Wilson

TalkingEnjoyFans

Contemporarily, we struggle with people worried about representation sometimes. It's a burden, as artists, that we take on that limits the work. It limits the characters people play. It limits the roles they want to do.

Dee Rees

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I'm always exploring other people: trying to figure out myself, trying to figure out everyone.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

MyselfPeopleTryingExploringOut

I try to write from a place of writing what I know, and what I know is interesting and appropriate women with edgy senses of humor. They're not soft people, so why are all the movies about women soft? My friends are all blazing their own paths. Some are married with kids, but a lot of them aren't. Some of them don't want that life.

Susanna Fogel

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The knighthood I received was a fantastic honour but it's not something I've ever used and I don't think I ever will.

Sean Connery

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I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

Norman Wisdom

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You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

Richard Grant

BestThinkYouDoneFinishSee

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