Peter Wright Quotes
As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.
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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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New voices in an old art - and women poets have been that for much more than a century - do not diminish the art through the category. They enrich it. They renew it with common quandaries of craft and innovation. The category simply allows the quandaries to be seen more clearly.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
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I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
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As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.
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When I was 17, a neighbour I knew well died of cancer, and I became au pair to her three little girls. In circumstances like that, when you can't really help, I think it's a human response to do something beyond oneself. So I did a sponsored parachute jump for Cancer Research. It was exciting and ridiculous.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
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Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
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There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.
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An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist
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You aren't really anybody in America if you're not on TV.
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Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don't. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.
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As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.
