Peter Capaldi Quotes
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
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I don't know if I'm able to play a cop for the rest of my life.
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If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.
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I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.
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It's a complicated process being so bilingual. Sometimes it's a mere word or sentence that comes to me, if I'm writing the book in English, in French. It's not always easy to deal with. Sometimes even during an interview somebody can ask me a question in English that I want to answer in French and vice versa – that's the story of my life!
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The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
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'Everybody thinks they want to see the truth,' said Tenkswa-Tawa. 'That’s one of the lies we tell ourselves.'
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'There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.'
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«The worse the better for all and the worse for all the better, the better for me, yours, political benefit.»
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Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.
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Cinema has evolved in two paths. One is spectacle. Like the phantasmagoria, its goal is the creation of a total substitute sensory world. The other is peep show, which claims for its realm both the erotic and the untampered observance of real life, and imitates the keyhole or voyeur's window without need of color, noise, grandeur.
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Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.
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It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts.
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If I am writing down something and it is my idea, my imagination, it won't be fact.
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How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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It's all very well setting up your own brand of face cream or exercise wear - but Christ, it's so shallow.
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I went to Thailand and built a village for 27 rescued children and this is where my passion to help prevent modern day slavery came from.
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I can't imagine I'll be the new George Clooney. That's not really in the cards.
