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Peter Weir Quotes

I enjoyed Jonathan Franzen's 'Freedom.' Would I make that into a film? I think it's better suited to television. That would very much be a dialogue and performance piece, and it would take some very skilful direction - but not my kind of directing. But I thought it was a real literary work.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: australian
Birth: August 21, 1944

Topics

Work Freedom Performance Better Kind

Also, to be honest, my dad wanted me to be an athlete. And I think all sons want to prove something to their dad. So now, aged 35, I want to see what I can achieve physically.

Joe Manganiello

Me Think I Can Achieve Want Athlete

I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.

Mother Me Sister Sound Older Sister

If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.

Control Internet Human Successful

It's very important that people who are feeling the need to do something... get activated.

People Feeling Important Need Get

My remit has always been: I want to do something different from the last thing I've done.

Done Want Always Something Different

However judicious academics may be - not like me - they are all taught to see through crap.

Me See Through May Academics Crap

'SNL' ain't been relevant since Jim Belushi. It's on every week; it's not funny. They need to find some black women to put on there to make it funny.

Funny Women Black Week Find Need

The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.

Luxury Labor Now Empires Check Own

'Not again!' I thought to myself this morning, as news trickled out that John McCain was set to pick Alaska governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Not again, because too often women are promoted for the wrong reasons, and then blamed when things don't go right.

Women Morning Myself Thought Wrong

You have to know the weeds - to have lived in them - to delegate. I wouldn't want to be a leader who had never lived in the weeds.

Leader You Know Want Never Weeds

All was well, until I reached the port of Havre. Three officers with the rank of lieutenant, whom afterwards I knew to be Scotland Yard men, came aboard and demanded to see my papers which they took away from me.

Men Me Three See Port Well

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

Logic Guilt Innocence Victims Terms

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