Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

Peter Maxwell Davies

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• I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Like
  • Holiday
  • Too Much

• Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Words
  • Dangerous
  • Safe

• What drew me to the character is that Roberto Duran is the son of an American soldier - a Marine - stationed in Panama and a humble Panamanian mother, and he was abandoned.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • American
  • Mother

• In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Day
  • Dead
  • Fault

• I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Friends
  • True
  • Three

• I'm obsessed with fuzz pedals.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Obsessed

• I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Work
  • Like
  • Thought

• Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it is so beautiful, I have some sense of, 'Hey, that's where I work, and Jimmy is President now.' But day in and day out, it's a job.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Work
  • Job
  • House

• I sang in 'Waiting for Guffman,' and I sang in 'A Mighty Wind.' I can carry a tune, but I don't like that Broadway singing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Singing
  • Waiting
  • Wind

• If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rhythm-and-blues side of things, seein' Otis Redding live was it, you know?

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Live
  • You
  • Know

• In high school, I did a little track and field and ran on my own. In college, I would run every now and again, but I didn't have enough time to be devoted to it.

  

  Natalie Morales
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• When you start falling for somebody and you can't stop thinking about when you're going to see them again, I love that. Women are beautiful. They deserve to be cherished and respected.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Women
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.

  

  Hal Boyle
  • Habit
  • Professors
  • Simply

• To be censored is one sure way of knowing you have been taken dead seriously. It also speaks to the continuing power of the printed word, almost fifteen hundred years after that amazing invention.

  

  Felice Picano
  • Power
  • Amazing
  • Taken

• Trading forces someone to think hard; those who merely work hard generally lose their focus and intellectual energy. In addition, they end up drowning in randomness; work ethics draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • People

• New truth is often uncomfortable, especially to the holders of power; nevertheless, amid the long record of cruelty and bigotry, it is the most important achievement of our intelligent but wayward species. ''

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Important
  • Long
  • Power

• I got a woman way over town, That's good to me, Oh yeah!

  

  Ray Charles
  • Good

• Money is just a piece of paper. Money burns. You know what I mean? Money is nothing substantial to me. You know what I mean? It's the enemy of music.

  

  Christofer Drew
  • Music
  • Money
  • Enemy

• We're going to restructure the state government into a government that's responsive to the needs of New York state taxpayers.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Government
  • New
  • New York

• Fantasy films tend to skew towards what Tolkien fantasy was, which is that the humans, the Hobbits, and the cute creatures are the good guys, and everything that's ugly are the bad guys.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Ugly

• I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Me

• I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff, too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels'.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Men
  • Remember
  • Action

• Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

  

  Peter Maxwell Davies