Peter Hammill Quotes
Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I looked at the world with the humaneness, I think, which is one of the hallmarks of being liberal in my mind.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment.
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Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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I don't like to look typical.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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You can't lose. Go, go, go!
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I think I got people confidence because I was not looking at them like insects that I would film.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.
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Make an effort to do the things that you enjoy instead of being lazy about it. Life is worth the hassle.
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Actually I think Art lies in both directions - the broad strokes, big picture but on the other hand the minute examination of the apparently mundane. Seeing the whole world in a grain of sand, that kind of thing.
