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.
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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.
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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.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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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.
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You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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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.
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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.
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When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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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.
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Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future.
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It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.
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I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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I can give you a definite perhaps.
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Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.
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Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure.
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You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.
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Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
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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.
