Peter Abrahams Quotes
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You think about taking audiences on a journey.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I love to write.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Garry Kasparov -
The stakes are very high for us in Haiti. We have many important interests there. Perhaps the most important to me is our interest in the promotion of democracy in this hemisphere.
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I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.
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I spoke with Abramovich. He is very simple and loves football. We were on the same wavelength: he wants to confirm Chelsea's position at the top.
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I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical; it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.
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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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As an actor on a film, you have no control over the final product - your job is to make a director's vision come true. So, you need to have total faith in them and add your own creativity and opinions and energy, but you have to really give over responsibility, and sometimes that can feel terrifying.
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Take account of your deeds before they are taken account of.
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If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
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I try to go to the gym three to four times a week and mix it up with yoga or a personal trainer.
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To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like.