Ellis Peters Quotes
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
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With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
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Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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I love apple juice.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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It is possible and very common to overcome and manage a mental illness.
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I went to Parsons, and I interned with Ronen when I was at Parsons. We started our own company since then.
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Then you will do away with the only social meetings at the Art Academy in London we have, the only occasion on which we all come together in an easy, unrestrained manner. When we have no varnishing days, we shall not know one another.
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Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
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I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.
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There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
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I was a huge pop music fan as a kid, but the bands I was into were like 5ive and N-Sync. It was like watching a cartoon. There was so much going on, and the production was so well mixed. Stevie Wonder was able to give you those melodies and production but back it up with such creative integrity and real musicianship and artistry.
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Integrity is critical to our lives - and to our dreams of achievement. We must remember that without integrity, nothing else matters and that with integrity, nothing else matters.
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We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.
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When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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Integrity expects integrity.
