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.Peter Wright
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Ed Koch -
No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
Jackson Browne -
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.'
Gabe Newell -
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
Edmund Spenser -
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.
Barbra Streisand -
I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
Yvonne Strahovski
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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.
Talia Balsam -
'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
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.
Eavan Boland -
When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
Feist -
Nothing can be as astounding as life. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the sole consolation.
Orhan Pamuk -
I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.
Naomie Harris
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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.
Barbara Rosenblat -
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.
Tamsin Greig -
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Carl Jung -
It's just, for me, the natural standard: a woman should be able to decide over her own body.
Lasse Hallstrom -
Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
Nathan Myhrvold -
This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
Vincent D'Onofrio
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All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
Paul Klee -
I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
Yuna -
Venus, thy eternal sway All the race of men obey. Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis. He is not a lover who does not love for ever.
Euripides -
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.
Peter Wright