Peter Capaldi Quotes
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I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'
Rachel Cusk -
When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
Laura Harring -
So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
Feist -
There are a bunch of images that are thrown in our faces all the time about what we're supposed to look like at 14, 15, 16. It's confusing. I think every woman can identify with that struggle.
Zoe Kravitz -
If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
Patrick deWitt -
One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
Otto Wallach
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I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
Fay Wray -
My family moved to Israel when I was eight until I was 10, and then we came back, and my parents split up. I was suddenly in a single-parent home and on scholarship. Fifth grade was such a hard year for me.
Natasha Lyonne -
I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
Ira Sachs -
I'm used to being in front of camera and knowing what to think. But if you're asking me to be me, I get very self-conscious. My job isn't to be me. Being an actor, people think you can do a eulogy at a funeral, a speech at a wedding. I find all that very nerve-racking.
Eddie Marsan -
We need to come up with use cases for this technology that drive clear benefits for individuals and institutions - these are our customers. Too often we see bitcoin and blockchain technologies as solutions in search of a problem. We don't just need these systems to be technically better than the alternatives - we need them to be more user-friendly.
Abigail Johnson -
Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
Said Nursi
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We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
Walt Handelsman -
Muore per metà chi lascia un' immagine di se stesso nei figli.
Carlo Goldoni -
He liked the vast openness of sky and prairie, and found loneliness a pleasure with so immense a domain to be alone in.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.
Iain Banks -
To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
Larry Wall -
Sit caeca futurimens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti.
Lucan
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Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.
Mary Wollstonecraft -
I came out of the womb born to sing and dance. I have to follow my heart.
Jennifer Ellison -
People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
D. A. Pennebaker -
I went to a radio station on Long Island in 1982, and thank goodness for me, it was so new that there was no receptionist. So the DJ opened up his booth, and took my tape and listened to it and thought it was a hit song.
Jon Bon Jovi -
So many people are insanely busy nowadays, and it's easy to say, 'Ah, I'll workout tomorrow.' But you have to set aside a time and stick to that schedule.
Derek Jeter -
Everybody loves monsters.
Peter Capaldi