Peter Carey Quotes

I think there was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of that.

Peter Carey

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• My parents were very permissive when it came to animals. As long as we earned the money to buy them and built whatever structure it was they were going to live in, we could have any kind of pet we wanted. They would have let us have a rhinoceros if we could have afforded it.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Long
  • Live
  • Money

• IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.

  

  Jack Dorsey
  • Friends
  • Interesting
  • Problem

• I love to see women who are comfortable in their skin and dress to suit their body - that looks fabulous because it's authentic.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Women
  • Love
  • Dress

• Scoring the first 10 in history was a big deal, but the fact that even an electronic scoreboard could not figure out how to put out a score, it made the story more historic.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • History
  • Story
  • First

• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Important
  • Business
  • High

• During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Family
  • Political
  • Me

• My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • You
  • Feeling
  • Faith

• We've heard that the hookup culture is destroying us. We've heard that it's saving us. We've heard that it's racist. We've agonized over which one of these is true.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • True
  • Culture
  • Over

• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Easy
  • Rights
  • Civil Rights

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • World
  • Space

• God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Good
  • God
  • Evil

• When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Picture

• I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Music
  • Like
  • Passions

• I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• Teenagers are some of the most passionate, dynamic and creative people I know. Yet, too often, this creative spark is left to flicker precariously and sometimes fade entirely.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Know
  • Creative

• In writing lyrics - well, for me, anyway - it's about getting into character, you know? 'Who is writing this?' In the case of the original 'Thick As A Brick,' supposedly a precocious, very young child who's fantasizing about his future and the context of all the confusing elements to which school boys are subjected at that time.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Writing
  • School

• I'm not averse to telling people off.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • People
  • Telling
  • Off

• I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

  

  Jason Schwartzman
  • People
  • Real
  • Game

• It's estimated that 16 million people in the U.S. have struggled with depression - and I include myself in that statistic. It's real, and it's not shameful, and there is help available. You can bring it to the light, you can tell the truth, you can go to a meeting, you can reach out to a friend. None of us are alone.

  

  Lisa Jakub
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• So finally I came up with a thing that felt really pure, and I'm Christian, so when I hear about death I have a lot of hope because I believe in Jesus and life after death, and John 3:16.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Possess
  • Bless
  • Shock

• In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.

  

  Kelly Clarkson
  • Texas
  • Jeans
  • Womb

• I think there was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of that.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Different
  • Real
  • America