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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The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
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I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti want to see the vote of the people respected.
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Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers.
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I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.
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The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
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Culture is the way for a country to know itself.
