Peter Capaldi Quotes
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view.
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Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it.
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Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.
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I go to wherever God calls me, wherever the church calls me to come to minister and preach the word of God.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.
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I think the genetics of being Irish are that you sort of prefer when it's rainy and cloudy. It's just genetic.
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Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.
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For me to do a story, something has to happen to someone. It's a story in the way you learn what a story is in third grade, where there is a person, and things happen to them, and then something big happens, and they realize something new.
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Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.
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I take stuff because I'm inspired by it.
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While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
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We don't want to give a business that is not going to come through the troubled waters a loan that they can't pay back.
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When I came to Chicago, I didn't even know what improvisation meant, as far as pertaining to comedy. I knew about Second City, but I didn't know what the word 'improvisation' meant.
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I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.
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A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire.
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Unimpressed was his default state.
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'Atlantic City' is very good.
