Peter Bergman Quotes
When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.
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Good argument is intended to persuade another.
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I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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Any Wall Street advertising that does not go into the boring details of methodology is most likely to be pushing past performance.
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One should know their body types well to experiment with trends.
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I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
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As more women 'lean in' and we collectively continue to fight sexism, there's another barrier to progress that hasn't been addressed: Many men who would like to see more women leaders are afraid to speak up about it.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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I've known elephants with broken hearts, others with depression.
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The forces of the nineteenth century have run their course and are exhausted.
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If by my life or death I can protect you, I will.
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Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true.
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I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.
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When my daughter, Clare, was 4, she told me that a school friend had told her what I did for a living. Clare asked me, 'Is it true you play Jack Rabbit?'
