Peter Burke famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.
The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own intimate sensitivity.
We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else.
absence can be present, like a damaged nerve, like a dark bird
You've got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend. When I was down you just stood there a grinin
The fifth set is not about tennis, it's about nerves.

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