Peter Bichsel Quotes
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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It takes heart to be in political life.
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When I did 'The Social Network', David Fincher told me that I managed to make a thankless character pretty awesome. I thought that was really cool because I think he's really cool.
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We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. Even if you are going to give it away. Even if you aren't interested. Not just for the author but for the bookstore. It's karma and just plain good manners.
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I'm being hypocritical because I have a Twitter, but I try to not talk about things like, 'Oh, I had a grapefruit this morning and it was delicious,' because, who cares?
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I feel like, in some ways, I'm just a journalist.
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Sometimes one has to take on responsibilities that weren't those one imagined.
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When people accept breaking the law as normal, something happens to the whole society.
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I don't believe in ghosts.
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I spent a lot of time taking acting lessons... Actors have no inhibitions, and I'm inhibited by everything. To be able to make fun of yourself is a skill and a liberating experience.
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After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.
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If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?
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I love Denver.
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The easiest way to stop piracy is not by putting antipiracy technology to work. It's by giving those people a service that's better than what they're receiving from the pirates.
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'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.
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You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
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There's this accent that I think everybody has when they grow up going to an international school. It's a mix of not quite English, not quite American. When I moved to L.A., it just went completely American.
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People want to hear clean sounds; they don't want to hear coughing in the background, pages turning.
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I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.
