Peter Hammill Quotes
Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.Peter Hammill
Quotes to Explore
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The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.
Carles Puigdemont -
I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
Landon Donovan -
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
Wallace Stevens -
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece -
In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen -
The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.
Irwin Shaw
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I'm not super into sports.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
Laura Kightlinger -
I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.
Naomi Watts -
Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.
Gary Herbert -
Being a showrunner meant writing and producing a television show, period, but with 'Lost,' suddenly it became part of the job to promote and be the face of the brand. In a weird way, the story was as much the star as any of the actors, so people wanted to hear from us.
Carlton Cuse
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When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.
Idris Elba -
I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.
Iris Apfel -
Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I've got family and friends over here, but more than that, there's a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.
Damian Marley -
We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.
Wendell Berry -
Some people would like me to be round again.
Karl Lagerfeld
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I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.
David Mamet -
You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.
Martina Navratilova -
Today we experience, in reverse, what pre-literate man faced with the advent of writing.
Marshall McLuhan -
I didn't grow up playing video games. I grew up catching crawdads in the creek and minnows and lizards and snakes.
Blake Shelton -
Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.
Quincy Jones -
Seriously, these days I tend to shut up in terms of external analysis and DO try to let things speak for themselves, while still trying to get some depth into them.
Peter Hammill