Peter Storey Quotes
Tackling, and that ability to stay on your feet and pressurise a player, is a dying art.
Quotes to Explore
-
I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
-
But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
-
I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
-
Through a painting we can see the whole world.
-
My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
-
Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
-
Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
-
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
-
I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.
-
I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
-
I have three Defensive Players of the Year. Only one other player has done that. But being a defensive lineman, it's hard to control the game.
-
I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
-
The art of boxing is seeing spaces and being able to take shots. The hitting and being hit have to become one. Your reactions have to be so in the moment. There's no time to think.
-
I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
-
I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.
-
I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
-
I was a screenwriting and studio art major in college, so even though I don't have any training as a floral designer, I have a very particular visual aesthetic.
-
Never, ever underestimate the importance of having fun.
-
In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.
-
Art is changing. Again. Here. Now. Opportunities to witness this are rare, so attend and observe.
-
I can’t stand these damn shows on museum walls with neat little frames, where you look at the images as if they were pieces of art. I want them to be pieces of life!
-
I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.
-
I tend to play the dangerous characters, the boyfriend, that sort of thing.
-
Tackling, and that ability to stay on your feet and pressurise a player, is a dying art.
