Peter Heller Quotes

Wanted to write fiction since I was 11, since I first read 'In Our Time' by Hemingway.

Peter Heller

Recitation: by Male by Female

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TimeWriteFirstFictionOur Time

I think I approach my choices much the way I approach the way I consume movies and TV and stuff. I like everything, and sometimes I'll feel like a horror movie, and sometimes I'll just feel like an episode of 'Hoarders.'

Jessica Pare

ChoicesThinkFeelSometimesMovies

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music and of aviation.

Tom Stoppard

MusicAgeHistoryAviationBeen

I find it hard to do small roles sometimes.

Robert Taylor

SmallFindSometimesHardRoles

God is a fiction invented by people so they do not have to face the reality of their condition.

Michel Onfray

GodPeopleFaceRealityFiction

I did a good bit of episodic television directing, but directing a movie is so much more complicated.

Jason Bateman

GoodTelevisionComplicatedMoreDid

We like competition.

Dennis Muilenburg

CompetitionLike

I want to sing for people. I want them to have the music. It's a nice feeling.

Delta Goodrem

MusicPeopleFeelingNiceWantSing

Our hubris needs to be downsized, thinking that profiteering on Earth, on whatever level - environmentally, economically, culturally - is unlimited and everybody should get as much as he wants or she wants. Humans need to be shrunk again to their actual size.

Christoph Waltz

ThinkingEarthSheNeedHubrisSize

Why do we have a brain in the first place? Not to write books, articles, or plays; not to do science or play music. Brains develop because they are an expedient way of managing life in a body.

Antonio Damasio

LifeMusicScienceBrainBodyPlay

I just want my work to be part of the elemental world.

Antony Gormley

WorkWorldWantJustPartElemental

In 1999, I got fired as coach of New England. In three years in New England, we actually did better than most people think. We were 27-21, won the AFC division title, went to the playoffs twice.

Pete Carroll

PeopleThinkBetterNewThreeCoach

I grew up in a bubble. I just watched TV. I thought that's what you were supposed to do in life: sing and dance and act.

Tyka Nelson

LifeDanceThoughtYouBubbleUp

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