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Peter Jackson Quotes

To get an Oscar would be an incredible moment in my career, there is no doubt about that. But the 'Lord of the Rings' films are not made for Oscars, they are made for the audience.

Peter Jackson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: new zealander
Birth: October 31, 1961

Topics

Moment Doubt Career Audience Rings

Never lived in L.A. I've always done the New York thing.

Andre Holland

New York New Done Never Always York

I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.

Anna Lee

I Am America Now Never Star Been

Being obsessed by goals is bad for you. You should set goals, even ambitious goals, regularly. But focus on them only to the extent that they give you direction.

Srikumar Rao

Goals Focus Direction You Bad Give

Most people make poor partners because their mental script has a defect. They believe focus means looking after their own interests. It's a script error.

Shiv Nadar

Focus People Looking Believe Poor

What's demanded from us black creatives is both a blessing and a curse, because it pushes you to be your absolute best. You cannot be anything less.

Tomi Adeyemi

Blessing Best Black You Anything Us

'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that.

Robert Fulghum

Life Think You Answer Big Depends

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Education Good Business I Am Energy

I've been with this young lady for about two years now, and my life changed. I don't even think that way no more. I feel good, too, that I'm changed. Now I feel regular. I feel like I'm supposed to.

Mike Epps

Life Good Feel Good Think My Life

During the Jim Crow era, poll taxes and literacy tests kept the African-Americans from polls. But today, felon disenfranchisement laws accomplished what poll taxes and literacy tests ultimately could not, because those laws were struck down. But felony disenfranchisement laws had been allowed to stand.

Michelle Alexander

Today Stand Down Taxes Literacy

The next movie I do is not going to be in school.

Devon Sawa

School Next Going Movie

Show me the story. I just want to tell a story that pulls me forward.

Debra Winger

Me Forward Story Want Tell Just

I got into my very theatrical phase. I wore only black: a big black hat and wild hair and wild black clothes, and I carried a sword stick. I went there still looking like Miss Florida, and I came back looking very different.

Delta Burke

Hat Hair Looking Black Clothes Back