Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes
At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
Rachel Cusk
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
Larry Wilcox
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
Victoria Justice
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
Edmund White
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
Daley Thompson
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
Aaron Peirsol
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
Natalie Gulbis
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
Nas
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
Natalie Wood
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Walter Benjamin
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
Iain McGilchrist
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I have no animus toward digital, though I still pretty much take everything on a silver-based negative, either a wet plate or just regular silver 8x10. But I've started messing a little bit with scanning the negative and then reworking it just slightly.
Sally Mann
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I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.
Daniel Cormier
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
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I don't want to hear about my death.
Oriana Fallaci
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You say to yourself: 'What could people, in all these countries, find in my books?' and yet I think we're all the same, anywhere. Everybody is a hero or a dramatic person in their own story if you just know where to look.
Maeve Binchy
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It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
Fedor Emelianenko
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Indebted countries can only grow out of their debt troubles through strong economic growth; austerity measures alone cannot work. It is imperative to engage in deep structural reform to spur growth.
Lou Jiwei
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
Jack Dorsey
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I'm a little older now and I think I've lightened up a bit as I'm getting older.
John Banville
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
Yang Lan
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Rose! Thou art the sweetest flower that ever drank the amber shower: Even the Gods, who walk the sky, are amourous of thy scented sigh.
Thomas More
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At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.
Peter Maxwell Davies