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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The reason why I play around with the word legend is because this is my 7th CD and a lot of artists don't even make it that far. Many artists don't even pass three or four.
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"Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.
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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.
