Peter Beard Quotes
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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There was a strange atmosphere on the set because we were filming in this large house, which was used for troubled children. You'd go in and find walls had been burnt down. The building was charged with this history and it stayed with us throughout the filming.
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I don't do athletics for any other reason than achieving certain distances, certain titles and goals in my head.
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I didn't want to be one of those arty nutcases.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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I think everyone in Hollywood works on multiple things because you never know what's going to happen with your projects.
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A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
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The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
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There's a danger in romanticizing what it means to be a writer. Because what it really means is hard, hard work. It means tearing your hair out. Feeling like your head is about to explode.
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Research your idea. See if there's a demand. A lot of people have great ideas, but they don't know if there's a need for it. You also have to research your competition.
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Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.
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No one knows restaurants like a New Yorker - they're incredibly discerning and restaurant savvy.
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I am infinitely grateful to the life which privileged me.
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There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.
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I'd love to interview Bill Clinton. I know that might be a little boring, but he's so interesting and such an amazing guy. All he's done after his presidency... he hasn't just sat around, he's been so active in so many charitable causes.
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I remember Nayim at Tottenham dived all over the place, and we used to say to him, 'What are you doing?' You do talk about it.
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We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.
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Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now.
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If, on our own account, we do not intend to wage war, we are much less willing to do so for interests which do not concern Germany and are alien to it.
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You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night.
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I will never use swear words unless they're necessary and unless I feel that is what the character would have said in those circumstances."
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Fluency can be a sign that nothing is happening; fluency can actually be my signal to stop, while being in the dark from sentence to sentence is what convinces me to go on.
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I've never had underwear of any kind, anything that you have to wash.
