Peter Carey Quotes
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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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I like to stay home. I don't want to be away shooting in Europe for six or eight months at a stretch.
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'Dhruva' is not a first person narrative of Siddharth Abhimanyu.
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He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I led the life of an intellectual up until a certain age. I remember Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams' was a big favorite when I was 11. It sounded so interesting. And it really was!
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Don't ally your personal interests with the development of the company.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrassed going down the road on my road bike; I didn't want my friends to see me because it was embarrassing.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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Instead of asking God to remove our problems so that our lives might be happy, we must purposefully try to learn as much as we can - and thereby become happier due to our insights and growth.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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Someone is out there looking to put you out of business. Someone is out there who thinks they have a better idea than you have. A better solution than you have. A better or more efficient product than you have.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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I think that anything is a form of folk music. That's just me being glib, but the thing I like the best about humans, and there are not many other things besides this, is that humans make culture. If you're an artist, a big part of folk is noticing what other people are doing and incorporating it and changing it - the way that songs warp and change over time.
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What has happened has happened. What is done cannot be undone. There is no point in looking back and ruminating over the past. I am a forward-looking man. I want to look ahead; I want to put my past behind me. I want to make my country proud.
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The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.
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Culture is the way for a country to know itself.
