Peter Capaldi Quotes

The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
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• I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
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• I voted for Barack Obama.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
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• I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
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• My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?

  

  Basil Bunting
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• Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.

  

  Sally Hawkins
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• The only way to find out why someone decides to engage in armed combat is to look at their individual personality.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Death
  • Culture
  • Present

• I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to the chapters. I think that the characters write themselves in some degree.

  

  Samantha Shannon
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• Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

  

  Larry Ellison
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• Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
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• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
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• Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

  

  Ralph Peters
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• When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.

  

  Valerie June
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• Now I've been free, I know what a dreadful condition slavery is. I have seen hundreds of escaped slaves, but I never saw one who was willing to go back and be a slave.

  

  Harriet Tubman
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• I don't have a goal. I don't limit myself to a goal.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Myself
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• Like 'TRL' was kind of fun - Oh, there's a new video!

  

  Valerie Faris
  • Fun

• Acting is such a personal thing, which is weird because at the same time it's not. It's for the consumption of other people. But in terms of creative outlets and expressing yourself, it's just the most extreme version of that that I've ever found. It's like running, it's exertion.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Time
  • Running

• A feature film is an expansion of budget, stress, story, hours, time, workload, everything.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • Time
  • Stories
  • Stress

• And again, the political economy in that particular environment means that, if my attraction ever coheres as a thought at all, it's never going to be verbalized, because that will mess up the education environment, it will mess up everything. You cannot claim to be doing good if you're moving in that direction.

  

  Anne Elizabeth Moore
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• The best advice is to get on with it. I'm very prone to falling into depressions - not clinical, just 'can't be bothered.' It's such a waste of time.

  

  Peter Capaldi
  • Time
  • Advice