Peter Capaldi Quotes
The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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No, but I'm really lucky, because I'm not the superhero.
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You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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As soon as someone finds out something you're insecure about or that bothers you, they will use that against you, which is awful.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.
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No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.
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People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
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Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
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Desire is making people build ships and cities, has made men conquer nations... and it can defeat that nicotine.
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The difference between movies and TV is that in TV you have to have a trauma every week, but that event may not be the biggest event in the characters' lives.
