Peter Uihlein Quotes
Winning is fun and great, but I would rather have a long, successful and healthy career than a short one with a few wins.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I think people turn to poetry more often than they think they do, or encounter it in more ways than they think that they do. I think we forget the places that we encounter it, say, in songs or in other little bits and pieces of things that we may have remembered from childhood.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
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I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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I'm not a materialistic person.
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All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.
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My parents moved around Stockton and Lodi. I had a lot of anxiety about jumping into another classroom. They were always putting me in special ed. But I was smart; I wasn't like these kids in the special-ed classes. But it would make me feel a little bit stupid.
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When I was in high school in England, I wasn't sure that you could have a career in fashion. In those days, there were very few fashion magazines. I didn't realize there was a school where you could go and learn how to make clothes and design. I thought you just had to be discovered somewhere, like a film.
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I'm heavily influenced by European and American cinema, but the further I get in my career, the more I find myself looking back East for inspiration.
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I have so many entities now as grow older you gain responsibilities, you know, real estate, and I like video, and you know I want to live a little you know, because time is passing, its not as long as it has been.
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It's much easier to work on other people's music and play in other people's bands as a guitar player instead of being the main songwriter and singer. That's a really big job to do that.
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To fix India's healthcare scenario, what is most needed is 'systems thinking.' For far too long, India has followed a vertical approach in its health sector, which translated into disease-specific national programmes being set up.
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Winning is fun and great, but I would rather have a long, successful and healthy career than a short one with a few wins.
