Peter Wright Quotes

I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.

Peter Wright

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• I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Care

• Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think about how people interact with their phones; how they consume content and how they share.

  

  Ze Frank
  • People
  • Think
  • Reality

• I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Music
  • Never
  • Bedroom

• I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • Keep
  • Prize

• I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • World
  • Best
  • Never

• Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Difficult
  • Landscape
  • TV

• One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • People
  • Great
  • Question

• I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.

  

  Adam Hamilton
  • People
  • True
  • Think

• When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Back
  • Hit
  • Attacked

• There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.

  

  Dan Reynolds Imagine Dragons
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Try

• I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • School
  • High
  • Acting

• You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • School
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Future
  • Financial
  • Plan

• It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.

  

  Pat Cash
  • Something
  • Give
  • Pigeons

• I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.

  

  Edmund White
  • Money
  • Always
  • Ambitious

• I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Goal
  • Appreciation
  • Acceptance

• I can give you a definite perhaps.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Give
  • I Can

• For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Couple

• There was always a piano in the house when I was growing up - my dad played, and I thought it was cool - and when I was eight, I begged my parents to let me have lessons. After a couple of weeks, I wanted to give up, but my parents were very focused and made me keep going, which I'm very pleased about now.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Up
  • House
  • Parents

• Remember, the greatest gift to give people your enlightenment, to share it. It has to be the greatest.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Remember
  • Gift
  • Enlightenment

• Jazz does not belong to one race or culture, but is a gift that America has given the world.

  

  Ahmad Alaadeen
  • World
  • Gift
  • Jazz

• Love is a flower of life – sometimes half open, one has to receive it with both hands. Nurture it, so it may open to its full bloom – you will be rewarded with its blessful frangrance. You may be intoxicated for life. If you let it drop on the ground, you have missed the most valuable gift of life.

  

  Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
  • Life
  • Love
  • Gift

• I had been living with dialysis for three years or so, and the new kidney felt like a reprieve, a new gift of life. I felt alive again and I guess that has had an effect on my use of colour.

  

  Peter Wright
  • Gift
  • Colour
  • Kidney