Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
Quotes to Explore
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.
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Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.
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The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
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I have a very strong belief in God.
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Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.
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If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.
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I feel bad for my little cousins who don't see themselves being represented, or the little girls in my community who won't have a chance to see a Disney princess... who resembles them.
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I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
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My life was pretty rough.
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Working on 'The War Room' was a thrill, not only because we were given such exquisite access to the nerve center of Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign, but for me personally, it was so exciting to be producing my first film and working with documentary filmmaking legends D.A. Pannebaker and Chris Hegedus, who were the film's directors.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor. Then it became about whether acting wanted me. So, I gave it a shot. It hasn't worked out too bad, so far.
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It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?
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If we do a DNA test of a language, its heart will be found to be very big, it absorbs everything. - Modi in Uzbekistan July 2015
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To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal.
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Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
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Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
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Nothing lasts forever. But—especially as it seems to me cities and humans are symbiotically and inextricably bound at this point—I hope cities have a good, long run. Plus, cities are beautiful creatures in their own right; and as with us, their vulnerability and ephemerality are part of that beauty.
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You can be free from everything but the consequences of what you do.
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Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.
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Logistics is the ball and chain of armored warfare.
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If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
