Peter Capaldi Quotes

Everybody loves monsters.

Peter Capaldi

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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
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• 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
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Best

• 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
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Simple

• 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
  • Time
  • Woman
  • Struggle

• If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Done
  • You
  • Doubt

• 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
  • Think
  • Same
  • Plants

• 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
  • Life
  • Good
  • Done

• 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
  • Up
  • Family
  • Home

• I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Professional
  • Same
  • Strength

• 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
  • People
  • Job
  • Wedding

• 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
  • Up
  • Technology
  • Problem

• Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Time
  • Hell
  • Paradise

• We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Fun
  • Able
  • Poke

• 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
  • Alone
  • Sky

• 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

• Never ask a woman if you may kiss her. Instead, learn to read body language.

  

  Neil Strauss
  • May
  • Kiss

• To give so much time to the improvement of yourself That you have no time to criticise others, To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, And too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Happy
  • Yourself
  • Improvement

• Kids put life into perspective. I never have a bad day. Life happens and you get bad news sometime, or things don't go your way at work - for me that might mean I lose a game or not play well - but that doesn't affect my mood from day to day. I love going home and seeing the smiles on my daughters' faces being happy to see me, and that makes everything all right.

  

  Stephen Curry
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Perspective

• The futuristic city on 'Legends Walking's cover rejects any connection with the contemporary setting of 'Changer.' It was as if every effort was made to keep readers of 'Changer' from finding this stand-alone sequel.

  

  Jane Lindskold
  • City
  • Alone
  • Effort

• You have to be very insensitive in order to have a cat, because I think they're very independent. When they're kittens, you think they're going to have a dog temperament in that they're going to run to the door when you get home, lick you on the face and cuddle with you all the time, but cats are not that way.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Time
  • Home
  • Dog

• Everybody loves monsters.

  

  Peter Capaldi