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 was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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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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Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.
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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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Cada um tem a sua vaidade, e a vaidade de cada um é o seu esquecimento de que há outros com alma igual.
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You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.
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So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.
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Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.
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When you're true to who you are, amazing things happen.
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I think that magic, at its root, is a very abstract notion. There's no real, approved definition. And, in that sense, it's like love; you can only see magic by the effect it has on people.
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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.
