Peter Gabriel Quotes
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Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.
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I aspire only to silence.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.
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Self-preservation is the first law of nature.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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I like to discover new things.
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Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.
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It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't particularly know how to play, and then I become excited.
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My therapist would be so happy to know I'm doing all this walking. They've done a great job of putting me back together, haven't they?
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You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
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For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
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People's lives have to change as a result of this legislation.
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I want to meet everybody on 'Disney Channel' and 'Disney XD' that are alive.
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All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
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I try to pack light with a folding leather suit bag. Anything more than five days, I need to check in my luggage. What takes the most space? Chef jackets, aprons and tools.
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All I want to think about for a couple of months is art. The rest is a waste of time and emotion. So here’s the lovely Annunciation by Antonello de Messina I saw in Syracuse. Antonello was the first great Italian master of oil paints, because Sicily was too damp for fresco.
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... but it's fun being alive, isn't it? I feel as if I'd only got to stretch up my hands to all those stars and catch as many of them as I want to.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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My theory of composition? Simple: do not release the shutter until everything in the viewfinder feels just right.
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It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.
