Peter Carey Quotes
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
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I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
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Every congressional committee that does an investigation has documents, papers and things that it collects in the course of that investigation - the backup to everything it does.
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I don't trust a lot of journalists.
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My personal style is ever changing.
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I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.
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I work out, and I try to stay active and fit so I can enjoy certain foods that I like to eat. I try to keep everything in moderation. I used to be insane about it.
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Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!
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I suppose popularity is measured by ratings. If a broadcaster is known as the leader because of ratings, then that's where people most want to be seen and heard, so there's no question that there's an advantage.
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We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.
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Guess what, I'm the opposite of a role model!
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Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process.
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And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.
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Technically, the search committee's work is completed once the feedback on this week's activity has been provided to the president.
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On the dance floor, as much as you say, 'Ladies, you are the car. He is the driver. You can only go where he takes you,' they still try to be in control.
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I try not to live my life on my phone or my social media pages.
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A pivot is a change in strategy without a change in vision.
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I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.
