Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency.

Peter Maxwell Davies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: composer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 8, 1934

Topics

ComplacencyListenAudience

I've been on jobs where there's that one actor who is just a miserable, miserable no-good, dirty bastard, and it just turns the whole process sour.

Joe Pantoliano

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Audiences in every medium are becoming far more savvy. No one goes to watch a Tom Cruise movie any more just because it's starring Tom Cruise. No one gives a toss. Concept is what makes actors raise their game. Everyone's on merit now.

Joe Dempsie

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Safe care saves lives and saves money. Adverse events like high levels of infection, blood clots or falls in hospital, emergency readmissions and pressure sores cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. There is a serious human cost, too, with patients ending up injured, or even dead. Most are avoidable with the right care.

Andrew Lansley

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Nothing made by brute force lasts.

Robert Louis Stevenson

NothingForceMadeLastsBrute Force

When I was in high school, the drama teacher picked me to play Iago in 'Othello.'

Jeff Perry

TeacherSchoolMeHigh SchoolPlay

There's no disputing that for pols, the Internet is a great way to connect with people and raise some cash and post 'Sopranos' parodies or play your opponent's macaca moments. But in a 'net root' sense, it's pretty useless for getting someone elected.

John Ridley

GreatPeopleInternetMomentsPlay

The rappers that become legendary, they're the ones you wanna be.

Stefflon Don

YouBecomeRappersLegendaryWanna

People can hold any opinion that they want on any subject that they choose. Just don't proactively lie to people. It's a simple request, really, and one that we don't hear nearly enough.

Steven Crowder

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I want to do something that people have not seen before... surprise everyone. There has to be variety in work.

Shraddha Kapoor

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My father brought me up to be a socialist.

Donovan

FatherMeUpSocialistBrought

It's fun to play a dark character, but you go home at the end of the day not feeling very good about yourself. You go away feeling dirty. It seeps into the air.

Douglas Booth

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Larry Hagman was a huge star, and he was carrying my stuff for me.

Christopher Atkins

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