Peter Capaldi Quotes
One year was so bad for me and my wife that we were going to have to sell our house until Elaine decided to change career and earn some money.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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But when it came to jamming and writing songs like we used to, we realized Brandon was a huge spirit in the band. Who knew? It was just something we had to learn.
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I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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Any time Chris Nolan wants to call me for advice, he can.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
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When I arrived to study at Oxford in October 1963, the bohemian style was black plastic or leather jackets for women and black leather or navy donkey jackets for men. I stuck to cavalry twills and a duffle coat, at least for a few months.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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I see myself as extremely lucky.
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I never had goals to be in the top 10 or top five in the world. I just try to find the borders, find what level I can reach. I have a good team around me, so hopefully it's going to get even better.
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I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.
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It's wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can't pay it back?
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I find awards frivolous. When I began my career, I was told that I deserved an award for a certain performance, but then I couldn't turn up on the day of the show. Then I was told that the award went to someone else. That's when I realised the truth behind it all.
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A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.
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One year was so bad for me and my wife that we were going to have to sell our house until Elaine decided to change career and earn some money.
