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.

Peter Maxwell Davies

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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.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Question
  • Look
  • Make A Difference

• 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.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • High
  • Want
  • You

• I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.

  

  Patrick Fischler
  • People
  • Hate
  • Things

• 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.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Money
  • Song
  • Show

• Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Professional
  • Pace

• The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • True
  • Best
  • Optimist

• I have a very strong belief in God.

  

  M. Ward
  • God
  • Strong
  • Belief

• Not being able to work would make me very unhappy.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Work
  • Me
  • Unhappy

• 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.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • People
  • Job
  • Movie

• 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.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Bad
  • Community
  • Chance

• I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Life
  • Watch
  • Go

• My life was pretty rough.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • My Life

• 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.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Film
  • Working
  • Exciting

• 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.

  

  Laura San Giacomo
  • Bad
  • Acting
  • Actor

• It never crossed my mind that one day I'm gonna be big and famous and have my own TV show, you know?

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Mind
  • Day
  • Famous

• 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

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Heart

• 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.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Patience

• 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.

  

  Leonhard Euler
  • Believe
  • Mind

• The instant myth of Amy Fisher turned feminist dogma on on is head: as in the hit films Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct, and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, woman rules and destroys. The femme fatale is for real.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Real
  • Hand
  • Feminist

• I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Lived

• Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.

  

  Ashwin Sanghi
  • Action

• He laid it on George, me and our wives without telling us at a dinner party at his house. He was a friend of George's, and our dentist at the time. He just put it in our coffee or something. He didn't know what it was, it was just, 'It's all the thing,' with the middle-class London swingers. They had all heard about it and didn't know it was different from pot or pills. And they gave it to us, and he was saying, 'I advise you not to leave,' and we thought he was trying to keep us for an orgy in his house and we didn't want to know.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • House
  • Wives
  • George

• If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

  

  Peter Maxwell Davies