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.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Surprise
  • Obsessed
  • Kitty

• We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Need
  • Size

• Hollywood's got its own particular environment.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Environment
  • Hollywood
  • Got

• I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Kind
  • Morality
  • Mortality

• To be honest, I never really wrapped my mind around winning.

  

  Webb Simpson
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Winning

• The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Jews
  • Were

• I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • Freedom
  • Me
  • Car

• I eat tons of green veggies to keep my PH balance in check.

  

  Valerie Cruz
  • Balance
  • Green
  • Eat

• 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.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Proud
  • Only
  • Did

• 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.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Think
  • Sound

• The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• 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.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • School
  • Home
  • High

• We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Walk

• 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.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Small

• It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Just
  • Global
  • Sit

• I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • See
  • Page
  • Leap

• I'm a driven person, but I'm also cautious, and I overthink things sometimes.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Sometimes
  • Person
  • Driven

• 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.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've been the equivalent of a fastball pitcher - trying to use blazing speed and brute force to wow the people around me.

  

  Eric Liu
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• From the moment we are born our culture encourages us to believe that outer well-being is the source of inner fulfillment ... Wherever we turn the principle is confirmed, encouraging us to become 'human havings' and 'human doings' rather than human beings.

  

  Russell Peters
  • Culture
  • Moments
  • Fulfillment

• You can ask anybody in the room. My numbers are the worst in here but I'm still a jerk to everybody, yelling at everybody, getting them going. Once I get it back, then I'll be even worse to the guys.

  

  Billy Koch

• THINK before you speak. Is it True, Helpful, Inspiring, Necessary, Kind?

  

  Alan Redpath
  • Think
  • Speak
  • Helpful

• When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.'

  

  Peter Carey
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