Peter Capaldi Quotes
I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what.
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I tend to deal with characters who are sort of at that same point of wrestling with, 'Who am I going to be as an adult? What do I believe? How am I defining myself in the context of my culture and my peer groups, my family?'
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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I was writing a lot even as a kid.
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I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.
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The addition of nuts in salad... I always find to be beneficial.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.
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I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.
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There's something about the kind of time travel that a poem can provide. It can take you to somewhere else - a culture far from you, a language far from you, but suddenly you're there. You're that person, seeing with that person's eyes. I think that's really tremendous. Even things like cinema or more traditional history can't quite do that.
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My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages, not least of which, for me, was his love of singing, which gave music a central place in our lives.
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I've always been a hustler.
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I like the constant rise and fall of the British film industry. But above all, I like the workhorses who kept going no matter what.
