"'A Christmas Story' has always meant a lot to me personally."

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Source : "EXCLUSIVE: Peter Billingsley to Executive Produce 'A Christmas Story' Musical" by Leslie Bruce, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 30, 2010.

Peter Billingsley

#Christmas Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Let passion reach a catastrophe and it submits us to an intoxicating force far more powerful than the niggardly irritation of wine or of opium. The lucidity our ideas then achieve, and the delicacy of our overly exalted sensations, produce the strangest and most unexpected effects.”
“It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrino's work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction.”
“The time I save setting up and cleaning up probably balances out by the time I spend on output.”
“With new jobs, new ideas, and growing confidence that our brightest days lie ahead, Wisconsin is on the move.”
“I like New York. There are similarities with London that make it feel rather like home, but at the same time it's slightly fictional.”
“What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are missing, my fine-feathered friend.”
“Of course, there's always one theater that shows some kind of European film. Now, fortunately, you have DVDs, so it's possible to get anything you want within a few hours. In those days, it was virtually impossible to get Italian films, or German films, or whatever. So I grew up with very standard, mainstream films.”

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“And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.”

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