Peter Capaldi Quotes
If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same journey as my protagonist.
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Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.
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People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change.
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If you need to get in physical shape for a film and you have to maintain that for six months, at the start of the film, I was never able to do it.
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There's a time to impress someone, and then there's a time to make an impression on someone.
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I'm definitely very interested in doing female narrators that aren't typically feminine or emotional or soft - especially teenage girls - because I have such a hard time relating to so many of them that I read. They feel psychologically cuter to me than I ever was.
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When independent films break through and actually make it into any level of mainstream-ness or get seen by people or find a life actually in theaters, it's extraordinary. And it doesn't happen that often.
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When we did eventually get to the party - me walking next to Dad's Volvo driving at five miles an hour - I had a horrible time. Everyone laughed at first but then more or less ignored me. In a mood of defiant stuffed oliveness I did have a dance by myself but things kept crashing to the floor around me. The host asked if I would sit down. I had a go at that but it was useless. In the end I was at the gate for about an hour before Dad arrived.
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If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.
