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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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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.
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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.
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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
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Muore per metà chi lascia un' immagine di se stesso nei figli.
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He liked the vast openness of sky and prairie, and found loneliness a pleasure with so immense a domain to be alone in.
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There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.
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To Perl, or not to Perl, that is the kvetching.
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Sit caeca futurimens hominum fati; liceat sperare timenti.
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I think that a lot of these cops have been put in very difficult situations and tasked with very difficult jobs with very little training and very little help.
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Great stories move through fear.
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Men live in glad obedience to the masters they believe in, or they live in a frictional opposition to the master they wish to undermine.
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You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful. We must leave behind "faithful footprints" for others to follow.
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Was it the same light that enchanted the first photographers? It is the same, and it is still brand new - it is something that never wears out.
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Everybody loves monsters.
