Peter Porter Quotes
You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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The beauty of soaps is that it takes a village to make it work, and you get to work with really hardworking people.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.
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Things change and work changes. Right now I like the idea of enveloping a space and getting messages across that connect to the world in ways that seem familiar but are different.
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People who work 44 hours per week make 50 percent more than people who work 34 hours a week.
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In America, people buy cars, and they put very little money down. They get a car, and they go to work. The work pays them a salary; the salary allows them to pay for the car over time. The car pays for itself.
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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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I simply seem to drift. But I sort of allow the drift, because it has a kind of check – it forces me to work harder at what I'm interested in.
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If your work becomes a source of enjoyment and a challenge, it will never seem like work - it will be fun. If you ever feel that your work is a burden, there is no point carrying on with it.
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I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
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I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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A lot of family members worked in the joint commodities family business. It was a classic case of capitalism at work and socialism at home.
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I'm married to an American. I work for a company that is, you know, its headquarters in the U.S.
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I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.
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The historical importance of a composer does not always go hand in hand with the quality of their work.
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I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.
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Every really able man, in whatever direction he work,-a man of large affairs, an inventor, a statesman, an orator, a poet, a painter,-if you talk sincerely with him, considers his work, however much admired, as far short of what it should be.
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All things are possible, once enough human beings realize that everything is at stake.
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If I really had to pinpoint my happiest days out of the United States, I'd choose those Fifties military days in Britain, particularly my time in South Ruislip. I had a ball.
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Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
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You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.
