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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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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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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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'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.
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This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.
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He expressed the opinion that the world was in a deplorable state. I said, 'Don't talk rot, old Tom Travers.' 'I am not accustomed to talk rot,' he said. 'Then, for a beginner,' I said, 'you do it dashed well.' And I think you will admit, boys and ladies and gentlemen, that that was telling him.'
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There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.
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You need clear, energetic minds, in order to appreciate the exalted character of the truth, to value the atonement, and to place the right estimate upon eternal things.
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I was 16 when I started modelling. It wasn't planned, but nothing in my life has or ever will be planned.
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Your way of life is sinful and wrong," he said fiercely. Thus says a man who admits to worshipping a God who vilifies pleasure, relegates women to roles that are little more than servants and broodmares, though they are the backbone of your church, and seeks to control his worshippers through guilt and fear.
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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.'
