Peter Brook Quotes
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
Carli Lloyd -
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx -
I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
Randa Haines -
I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
Sam Smith -
It's always, 'Are you the runner girl?' I say, 'My name is Sally actually.' I used to always get that at school as well, 'Are you the runner girl?' I'm not even the runner girl, I'm a hurdler.
Sally Pearson -
I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
Yann Tiersen
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
Kate Moss -
Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
Haile Selassie -
The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
Sam Donaldson -
For my life, I need to make my own choices.
Kangana Ranaut -
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Gail Godwin
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This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.
Pam Grier -
Don't try to convince your partner you are right. Instead of trying to win arguments, try to have a winning relationship!
Karen Salmansohn -
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
Umberto Eco -
I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
Karen DeCrow -
Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
Salman Rushdie -
I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
Sam Smith
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What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.
Augusto Roa Bastos -
The record Clef and I did was just sitting there. So I said, Clef, I got a record, hit a verse on it. He just went in, messed around and ended up doing the hook too.
Pras Michel Fugees -
When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'
Ciaran Hinds -
Sometimes words are harder than blows.
Zinedine Zidane -
The work of a director can be summed up in two very simple words. Why and How.
Peter Brook