Peter Sis Quotes
When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.
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As for my diet, I try to eat lean, clean and healthy - nothing too surprising. And I avoid too much meat or dairy because they slow you down.
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I forced myself to think what is the new concept and it became clear to me that it was risk, not only in technology and ecology, but in life and employment, too.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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We are ready to work hard, work together to re-elect President Barack Obama. We must do it because women deserve to make their own choices and determine the course of their lives.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
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If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.
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I always knew I'd go back to school. Modeling was a means to an end, making money for graduate school.
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Everybody in the black community must organize, and then we decide whether we will have alliance with other people or not, but not until we are organized.
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So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.
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I don't think I'm better than other people, I think I'm different from other people, because I do different things.
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When I do my own books, I take it as more of my own confessional, but when I illustrate for other people, it is intriguing because I feel like I shouldn't be stepping too much into the limelight. It's like playing the piano while someone else is singing.
