Peter Hobson Quotes
There's only one city in the world that has this problem this weekend. What a problem to have. We're blessed.
Quotes to Explore
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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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If you say the word amnesty - the 'A-word,' so to speak - it's DOA. If there's even a hint of amnesty in my district, it's dead on arrival.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
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We should seek by all means in our power to avoid war, by analysing possible causes, by trying to remove them, by discussion in a spirit of collaboration and good will.
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We need to take nostalgia seriously as an energizing impulse, maybe even a form of knowledge. The effort to revalue what has been lost can motivate serious historical inquiry; it can also cast a powerful light on the present.
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The bigger the better; in everything.
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Whatever you do, don't discourage your dreaming propensity. Your heart's desires are not empty vaporings. They foreshadow possible realities. Man was made to aspire, to look upward.
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There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you.
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There's only one city in the world that has this problem this weekend. What a problem to have. We're blessed.
