Oscar Peterson Quotes
We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
Quotes to Explore
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The economics of being a playwright are abysmal. I like to think of the work I do out in Hollywood as a way to actually make a life in the theater easier.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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Taking B12 is the price of getting to be vegan, the way wearing a helmet is the price of getting to ride a motorcycle and giving up alcohol for nine months is the price of getting to have a baby.
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I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with a completely new perspective. I love the idea that people will sit in one room for a couple of hours and listen.
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Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!
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You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
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Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.
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In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
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Pleasers … make up what Earl Shorris has called 'the oppressed middle,' the middle-managers who enjoy 'the comforts of fearful people' and pay by submitting to their superiors’ definitions of happiness and success.
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I agree with Marjorie Rosen's good psychological analysis of my acting ability.
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The word 'art' does not designate the concept of a mere eventuality; it is a concept of rank.
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“human capacity for arrogance was only exceeded by its capacity for ignorance.”
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His time is forever, everywhere his place.
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We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
