Peter Davison Quotes
And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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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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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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In many of my plays, there was a kind of autobiographical character in the form of a son or young man.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I think as long as I have a creative outlet, I'm happy.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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I'm from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on 'M*A*S*H!'
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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I have turned down so many endorsements. My phone never stops ringing.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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I object to the actual phrase 'Follow me.' You've gotta be kidding! Why would I want to follow anybody else? Nor do I want them to follow me. The machinations of my life, the banalities - they're mine. They belong to me.
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I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
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I know that I'm not a criminal. People say that, but my music speaks for itself. And I believe in my music.
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Batley and Spen has a high proportion of people working in manufacturing, and we can boast the full range of industries, including high-skilled, precision engineering. We manufacture all sorts, from beds to biscuits and from carpets to lathes. We also have some of the best fish and chips in the country and some of the best curries in the world.
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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
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And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
