Jeff Perry Quotes
I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost like documentaries,' in terms of artistic vocabularies of storytelling. I totally get that discussion; that makes sense to me.
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.
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Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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The Spirit of the Holy Ghost is the teacher in the temple. He teaches principles of eternal significance. It is during these instructions that we see the relationship between the earthly and the eternal. We must remember that the Spirit teaches only those who are teachable.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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My dream was always to win in the Olympic Games, but I never set that next goal, and I have realised now I need to set another goal.
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Sigmund Freud was once asked to describe the characteristics of maturity, and he replied: lieben un arbeiten ("loving and working"). The mature adult is one who can love and allow himself or herself to be loved and who can work productively, meaningfully, and with satisfaction.
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One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.
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I get people saying, 'Opera is too large a canvas for me. I don't love it. I love movies that feel almost like documentaries,' in terms of artistic vocabularies of storytelling. I totally get that discussion; that makes sense to me.
