Peter Capaldi Quotes
It seems to me that most things that are being made are designed for young people. There aren't that many depictions of melancholic older people, even though they form a growing proportion of the population.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
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I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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Even in the angels there is the subordination of one hierarchy to another, and in the heavens, and all the bodies that are moved, the lowest by the highest and the highest in their turn unto the Supreme Mover of all.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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My parents come down to Los Angeles a lot.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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It no longer counts as remarkable that Egyptians organized their uprising on social media.
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It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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I think that ballads are always something where I can really become one with the audiance.
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Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.
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It seems to me that most things that are being made are designed for young people. There aren't that many depictions of melancholic older people, even though they form a growing proportion of the population.
