Peter Maurer Quotes
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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I am inspired by anything beautiful. Sometime it's a pair of eyes or flowing gorgeous hair, other times it's the sky or a sunset. I've been inspired by supple skin or the texture of a soft shirt.
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I would be a poorer person if the only things I knew were what I had found out for myself.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.
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It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Even though Chinese society was really closed, there were two windows for me to explore the world. One was from my mother and grandmother, the unseen and invisible world. Another window was brought from my father's side, those classic and Western books.
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I have a photograph of myself when I was 2 years of age, and I don't recognize the person in the photograph. She doesn't look anything like me, and I can't find any trace of her in me physically. And yet I remember her very, very well - even her anxiety.
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Wars are getting longer, they are more complex, and the humanitarian need is great.
