Ellis Peters Quotes

Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

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• I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Music
  • Different
  • Why

• I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Deal
  • Threats
  • Ultimatums

• I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Life
  • Style
  • Like

• Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Chance

• It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Pay
  • Prophet
  • Does

• The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.

  

  Aaron Diehl
  • Business
  • Want
  • Hand

• The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• The job as a coach is difficult.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Job
  • Difficult
  • Coach

• My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Write

• Im not your biggest girly girl.

  

  Maggie Siff
  • Girl
  • Girly
  • Biggest

• When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Great
  • Bad
  • College

• Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • Time
  • Important
  • Ahead

• Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Experience
  • Song
  • Interesting

• I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Song

• The guest to me was always paramount.

  

  Larry King
  • Me
  • Always
  • Guest

• There is no one single solution to eradicate phishing.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Single
  • Solution
  • Eradicate

• They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Book
  • Page

• In many professions, what used to matter most were abilities associated with the left side of the brain: linear, sequential, spreadsheet kind of faculties. Those still matter, but they're not enough. What's important now are the characteristics of the brain's right hemisphere: artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Brain

• No more slave States; no slave Territories.

  

  Salmon P. Chase

• His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

  

  Erik Larson
  • Evil
  • Belief
  • Weakness

• The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out of hearing of the nightingale's song.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • May
  • Song
  • Night

• Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

  

  Ellis Peters
  • May
  • Pleasure
  • Saint