Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

Peter Maxwell Davies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I've been this voice of a lot of upbeat dance tracks, but people don't really know me.

Jess Glynne

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If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life, there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

Jesse Eisenberg

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I felt that the Star Wars series became very pretentious as time went on. Just heavy and leaden.

John Milius

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Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

Alphonsus Liguori

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I've been programming computers since elementary school, where they taught us, and I stuck with computer science through high school and college.

Masi Oka

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We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with.

Lou Harrison

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I think Donald Trump's had a pattern of leaping on the bandwagon of anything that he feels will further his candidacy, and if that means sowing more fear and paranoia and playing into a kind of xenophobic populist strain, then that's what he will do.

Louis Theroux

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The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.

Louis Susman

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When I was young, I loved a series of books by an author called Maud Hart Lovelace and the series, which is still around, I'm happy to say, is - they're the 'Betsy-Tacy' books.

Judy Blume

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The decisions you make affect a lot of people. You have investors, employees, and customers who all rely on you. Being a leader is a 24-hour-a-day job.

Jon Oringer

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But doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?

David Shuster

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When I went into the seminary, I was one of those victims of New Math and had not had Algebra I and had no idea what we were doing in New Math in the ninth grade. But when I went into the seminary, they had gone the traditional route and taught first-year algebra.

Clarence Thomas

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