Peter De Vries Quotes

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Peter De Vries

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 27, 1910 - September 28, 1993

Topics

ExperienceSchoolThinkingLearnGo

Our existing media system today is the direct result of government laws and subsidies that created it.

Robert McChesney

TodayGovernmentMediaResultSystem

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

Matthew Nable

GreatYourselfMeSomeoneComfort

Everyone wants to be an arena act, and it's making country music evolve. People are cutting things more for that arena environment. But who's to say that that is a sign of any more of a successful career than what James Taylor has been able to do, when he still comes and plays the Ryman every two years?

Tracy Lawrence

MusicPeopleEnvironmentCareerSay

I will drink alcohol socially. That's really on the weekends.

Romeo Santos

AlcoholWillDrinkWeekendsReally

Anyone with a show on T.V. will tell you it's backbreaking work. And if you have a big personality, which I have, and you're a perfectionist, there's going to be head-butting.

Roseanne Barr

WorkPersonalityYouWillTellBig

You can't satisfy everybody. If you do, you're probably doing something wrong.

Mick Foley

DoingYouWrongSomethingEverybody

We're always trying to say things are right or wrong, bad or good. If we just chilled out, maybe things wouldn't be so hard.

Lucy Davis

GoodTryingBadWrongSayRight

I've always been a singer, but I don't know if I was always a natural performer.

Lisa Hannigan

KnowAlwaysSingerNaturalBeen

Leonard Bernstein was probably the most significant formative influence on me - he was such an encompassing musician. I spent my teenage years absorbing him, and my other interests stemmed off of that. Bernstein led me to Sondheim and to Gershwin, and Sondheim led me to listening to Joni Mitchell.

Jason Robert Brown

MeListeningInfluenceHimYearsHe

My work's never been accepted by my family, but it's something I'll always carry on with.

Johnny Vegas

WorkFamilyNeverAlwaysSomething

There is no chip coming off of my shoulder because, at the end of the day, you're still going to continue to be doubted.

Draymond Green

DayEnd Of The DayEndYouShoulder

Religions take donations and don't pay taxes.

Deepak Chopra

TaxesReligionsPayTakeDonations

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