Peter Capaldi Quotes
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Doing a TV show is different because it's more of a TV version of something. A more focused take on things.
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Sometimes I rush my swing because I am so anxious to play well. In Cuba, the quality of the pitching is not the same as it is here. There you might find one or two pitchers at 94 or 95 mph. Here, every day I find several, and each pitcher who comes along throws his hardest stuff.
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Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.
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I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.
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Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.
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There's always cause for concern if bad policies are pursued.
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I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.
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I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.
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Some of my favorite shows are ones where the characters are vile and human and flawed. That's what makes me want to keep watching a show, not writers telling me how to feel about characters.
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I don't think I'm capable of writing without caffeine. And most of the time, that caffeine comes from iced tea.
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He who lives in the single exercise of his mental faculties, however usefully or curiously directed, is equally an imperfect animal with the man who knows only the exercise of muscles.
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I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.
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'Don’t lose your temper,' said Ruell evenly. 'It’s your worst fault, except for ignorance.'
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I thought: should I be worried? I was under arrest. In a town where I'd never been before. Apparently for murder. But I knew two things. First, they couldn't prove something had happened if it hadn't happened. And second, I hadn't killed anybody. Not in their town, and not for a long time, anyway.
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Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.
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The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The diamond and the gridiron - and, to a lesser degree, the court, the rink, the track, and the ring - embody the American dream of Eden.
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She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.
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John Carey, who had once buried The Metropolitan Critic, hailed Unreliable Memoirs as the written equivalent of sliced bread. Instantly I revised my opinion of his critical prowess upwards.
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I may be the only person in the world who has my own embryonic cells growing in a petri dish.
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Poverty is not socialism. To be rich is glorious.
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It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.
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The way I see it, when I go out as an actor, it should be on a type of film I'm never going to do as a director.
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I turn down invitations to events where I know there will be politicians.
