Peter Quotes - Page 24

• I've chosen Peter Pan by JM Barrie as my favourite children's book.

  Tessa Jowell

  Children, Book, Favourite

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• Donald Trump has taken the Peter Principle to unprecedented heights. Or is it depths?

  Michael R. Burch

  Taken, Principles, Depth

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• Roles came to me. I was very, very lucky in that respect. Great directors, great writers, great producers - they saw something in me that they wanted for their picture or their play or whatever it was, whether it was Edward Albee or whether it was - or Peter Hall, directors. They would come to me, thank God. I was lucky. Lucky, lucky, lucky.

  Angela Lansbury

  Play, Thank God, Directors

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As a child, I always remember our home, which was a flat just on the Barnes side of Hammersmith Bridge in London, buzzing with actors such as Patrick McGee and Peter Bowles. We were a family who were always on the go.

  Samantha Bond

  Children, Home, Bridges

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• Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their addresses to a helium balloon and let it go in her backyard, certain it would reach Mars. Instead, they had received a letter from a widow who lived two blocks away. 'Yeah,' he said. 'I think so.

  Jodi Picoult

  Block, Thinking, Two

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• I always wanted to be a Blue Peter presenter when I grew up!

  Sophie Aldred

  Blue, Grew Up, Wanted

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• What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Children, Book

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.53, Harvard University Press

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• Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.

  James M. Barrie

  Lonely, Stars, Children

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.32, 谷月社

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• “Lovelace” was really great. I got to work with the wonderful Amanda Seyfried, Hank Azaria and Peter Sarsgaard, so it can’t get no better than that, right?

  Cory Hardrict

  Wonderful, Amanda, Really Great

  "Cory Hardrict Talks Tia Mowry, ‘Lovelace’ And Jennifer Lawrence’s Boyfriend For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Leigh Blickley, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 18, 2012.

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• With gritty action and realistic science, Peter Watts brings to life a dark and vivid world.

  David Brin

  Dark, World, Vivid

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• You want to beat Peter?" she asked "No," he answered "Beat the buggers. Then come home and see who notices Peter Wiggen anymore. Look him in the eye when all the world loves and reveres you. That'll be defeat in his eyes, Ender, thats how you win" "You don't understand" he said "Yes i do" "No you don't. I don't want to beat Peter" "Then what do you want?" "I want him to love me

  Orson Scott Card

  Eye, Home, Winning

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• Thank you for this, Peter. For dry eyes and silent weeping. You taught me how to hide anything i felt. More than ever, i need that now.

  Orson Scott Card

  Eye, Dry, Taught

  Orson Scott Card (2010). “Ender's Game”, p.44, Macmillan

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• The Wizard Of Oz" has secrets that are just too much. Or "Peter Pan" – the whole 'lost boys' thing is just incredible. They’re not childlike at all, they’re really, really deep; you can rule your life by them. Or say 'child-like', because children are the most brilliant people of all, that’s why they relate to those stories so well. Fairy-tales are wonderful.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Boys, People

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• Four flips the gun in this hand, presses the barrel to Peter's forehead, and clicks a bullet into place. Peter freezes with his lips parted, the yawn dead in his mouth. "Wake. Up," Four snaps. "You are holding a loaded gun, you idiot. Act like it.

  Veronica Roth

  Gun, Hands, Lips

  Veronica Roth (2014). “Divergent Series Ultimate Four-Book Collection: Divergent; Insurgent; Allegiant; Four”, p.44, Harper Collins

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• We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or did you peter out bit by bit? When did you stop having parties? Did everyone else get old too, or was it just you? Are other people still here, hiding in the palm trees or holding their breath underwater? When did you last swim your laps? Do your bones hurt? Did you know this was coming and hide that you knew, or did it ambush you from behind?

  Jennifer Egan

  Hurt, Party, People

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.65, Anchor

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• They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had no music; they hummed. And there was no reason for them to be dancing that Peter Lake could see, except that it was an exceptionally beautiful night.

  Mark Helprin

  Beautiful, Night, Lakes

  Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.72, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is much to admire in Peter Brett's writing, and his concept is brilliant. There's action and suspense all the way.

  Terry Brooks

  Writing, Suspense, Way

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• There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.

  Wendell Phillips

  Crazy, Destiny, Europe

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.51

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• I think even back as far as 'Lord of the Rings,' there was always the chance that 'The Hobbit' would be made, even way back then. Of course at that point, Peter Jackson didn't probably think at that point that he'd be directing it.

  Andy Serkis

  Thinking, Would Be, Way

  "Hobbit Week: A Conversation With Andy Serkis, Creator Of Gollum". Interview with Ethan Gilsdorf, www.wired.com. December 10, 2012.

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• Peter Dinklage is one of my oldest friends from New York!

  Sam Trammell

  New York, Oldest Friends

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• I've always heard that you'll know, but I never understood it. With Peter, we even broke up after we dated for a year, for two or three months, but I still knew. I knew there was something different about this union. Even through the hard times, it was like "How are we going to get through this?

  Mariska Hargitay

  Hard Times, Years, Two

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• When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.'

  Faye Dunaway

  Thinking, Glasses, Remember

  "Looking for Gatsby". Book by Faye Dunaway, 1995.

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• The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.

  Bill Vaughan

  Nbc, Anchors, Competition

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• I love discovering new young brands and watching these fashion lines take off, like Peter Pilotto, Christopher Kane, and Clover Canyon.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Fashion, Lines, Canyons

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• Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

  David Wenham

  People, Film, Armstrong

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