Peter Marino Quotes
Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.
Quotes to Explore
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I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
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To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
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My wife even thinks our next album should be recorded in our house, and we should move all the furniture out to the garage. I'm not sure how many spouses would be supportive of that, much less come up with the idea.
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Though we may prefer ourselves to the universe, we nonetheless loathe ourselves much more than we suspect. If the wise man is so rare a phenomenon, it is because he seems unshaken by the aversion which, like all beings, he must feel for himself.
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I'm a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan.
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Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.
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Creating work for the time that one lives in means no retro thinking. It can and hopefully does mean timelessness.
