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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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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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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The truth is that we all have to do more things than we can rightly do, if we are to do anything at all.
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When you are working on a TV show or series, you just get into the routine. You get used to getting up early. It takes a few days, but once you are up and running, you get used to going home late, and it becomes this very repetitive cycle.
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Make up is generally there to make you look better, not make you look like you're wearing make up.
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I think being a mother helps keep your feet on the ground. There's very little dignity in parenthood. It's a great leveller.
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Wars are getting longer, they are more complex, and the humanitarian need is great.
