Peter Carey Quotes
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
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We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
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Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
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It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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I didn't want to go marching down the street with camera crews. Oy. To get married? Really? It seems like you have an agenda when you do it that way. I wouldn't want to get married to be an example.
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If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent, then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see, there is simply no escape.
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I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.
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I was taught to believe, "If you work hard, you will be successful. If you are not successful, it is because you didn't work hard enough."
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When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'
