Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes
You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.
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Maybe I won't stay out of prison. Who knows?
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I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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I'm not against gay people. I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way.
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The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
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The search for a Jewish national home came about due to centuries of anti-Semitic pogroms, expulsions, discrimination and hate. The Holocaust was simply the evil culmination of all that came before it.
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The moment is ripe for an experienced businessman to talk practical, prudent economics to the electorate - which is why Mitt Romney's political fortunes are steadily being resurrected from the grave.
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I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.
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It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.
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If you're last in your class at Harvard, it doesn't feel like you're a good student, even though you really are. It's not smart for everyone to want to go to a great school.
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As a leader of a majority-Muslim nation, I believe Islamic countries must better understand what young people aspire to.
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And to stick our head in the sand and pretend that we are somehow safer if we do not know or to pretend we are somehow safer if we limit our options seems to me not only foolish but actually dangerous.
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Prior to getting into music, I interacted with, on a daily basis, about 5-10 percent of the people that I've interacted with since then. I've been meeting people from different backgrounds and different cultures. That did allow for a lot of change. I've changed as a product of that, but it's been positive.
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When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.
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I don't do social media.
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I feel like the better version of myself is on paper... I'd rather have people know me on paper.
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You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.
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Mother's father and brothers all took great interest in pugilism, and they knew the game well from much practice of their own. They were never so much delighted as when I visited them with a black eye or a bloody nose, at which time they would be at the trouble to give cunning points as to how to meet an opponent according to his weight and height.
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You can't please everyone, but I've always felt you cannot ultimately lose if you give everything you try 110%. You'll always learn something useful, even from a failure, that can be applied to the next challenge or project.
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An intriguing mind is a powerful aphrodisiac.
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It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.
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I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.
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The cultural center of Asia Minor, Pergamon boasted a vast library of 200,000 scrolls, a spectacular 10,000-seat theater, and a monumental Great Altar decorated with sculptures of the Olympian gods defeating the Giants. People came from all around the Mediterranean seeking cures at the famous Temple of Asclepius, god of medicine.
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You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.
