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Peter Maxwell Davies Quotes

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

Peter Maxwell Davies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Doing Mouth Television Talk Radio

Well, I think any actor can probably identify with being a professional liar. You don't always look at yourself that way, but I know a lot of days I do.

John Cusack

Yourself Liar Think You Look Know

It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.

John Pilger

People Control Dangerous Out Clear

I think I'm fairly good with money, but I've developed some strange tics - in shops I don't like to go to the counter unless I've got at least two things to buy. If I'm walking around with just one thing in my hand I'll put it back and wait a few weeks because that doesn't seem like a proper purchase.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Good Money Wait Think Walking Back

It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

Spike Lee

People Black Down Quest Define Here

I am very ambitious and have set goals for myself. I really don't keep a tab on what my contemporaries are doing. I want to push myself as an actress and don't want to get into the rat race. With every film, I want to grow as a person and an actress. The character I play needs to change me in real life.

Sonam Kapoor

Life Change Goals Character Myself

Teenagers are kinda the same wherever you find them in America.

Tom Cotton

America You Find Same Wherever Them

The Crystal Cathedral Ministries, the assets and the buildings, would still be in the hands of the ministries if my father would have simply walked away. When I accepted the role as the next senior pastor, he had agreed to be an ambassador-at-large and raise funds for the endowment fund. He didn't do that.

Robert A. Schuller

Father Hands Buildings Crystal Role

I started getting jobs, and I thought it was going to be real easy.

Ron Silver

Thought Easy Real Be Real Going

For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums.

Michel Faber

Down Burn Atheist Years Turn Quite

In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

Joni Mitchell

Good Time Book Someone Bad Go

Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.

Jose Canseco

Baseball Me Control Saying Game You

I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the essence of what it's like to be alive now. The reason why great novels from centuries ago are still great is because that's what they were doing; it's like a message from another culture.

Jonathan Dee

Great Culture Doing Find Alive Want