Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.

Peter Maxwell Davies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Just about everything put out by Top Shelf and Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics is what I keep up with. And once in a while, I'll read the more mainstream comics - I like Grant Morrison's writing and some of Warren Ellis' stuff, although maybe they're more on the fringe of the mainstream.

Jeffrey Brown

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People say, 'What's the secret to a marriage?' There's no secret - I think you get lucky.

Steve Carell

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If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

Sigmund Freud

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During college, in Los Angeles, I interned all over Hollywood. Development roles appealed to me; they were a perfect blend of business and creativity.

Julia Hartz

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When I'm home, I'm just mom. We're a normal, regular family doing normal, regular types of things.

Lisa Vidal

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It's interesting to help someone find their vocabulary. There would not have been a De Niro without a Scorsese.

Jason Patric

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There are holes in our lives that can never be filled - not really, not ever.

Jonathan Evison

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Audioslave was something that I felt had become a career decision. It became three albums over a period of years touring with a specific group of people.

Chris Cornell

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One of the things is, I don't read my own press. I never watch myself.

Anne Wojcicki

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You shouldn't send people out to do a job which you cannot afford to equip them to do.

Philip Hammond

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The first question we would ask if aliens landed on this planet is not, 'What does this mean for the economy or jobs?' It would be, 'Are they friendly or unfriendly?'

Peter Thiel

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My view on working with any government in the world is that there are things that you will agree upon and things that you will not. And you don't want to let the things you don't mean that you don't have any interface.

Tim Cook

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