Peter Capaldi Quotes
I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.
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My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a – I don't know the English word – like a passage.
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The ability and desire to transform the mundane materials at hand that we both bring into the collaboration well beyond the sum total of the parts - to birth a new baby neither of us could claim single parentage of.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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Funnily enough, 'Chuck' prepared me for '24.'
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Acting is in your soul.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'
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When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what it was about nuclear science, but whatever it was that triggered that interest, it stuck. I went after that one with a passion.
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I freakin' hate Twitter, man. I honestly don't understand the purpose of it.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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I'd repair our education system or replace it with something that works.
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I pride myself on definitely being more than a dunker.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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Anyone who's been reading my stuff can see that there's a lot of tracks being laid for future stories.
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
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I realize how much my life lines up with artists like Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke. My sound comes from church, but the stories come from actual personal experience, being out there in the streets living life.
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The one thing I've always done as an author is talk to my publicists. Because they have all the best stories - and they have all the dirt on other, more famous and important writers. They're not supposed to talk about it, but sometimes you can get awesome little tidbits from them.
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The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.
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I wouldn't be here if it were not for the grant system that paid for me to go to art school - because my parents couldn't have afforded it.
