Peter Carey Quotes
I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would matter for my father, who was absolutely a creature of the Great Depression.
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I always played to win.
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Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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Most of my songs have names of people I've met or are dear to me. There are people who have privacy issues and about people knowing about their private life. But for me, I like to include few special names and few details about them to make the song very special to me.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
I have the necessary lack of tact.
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It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
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We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.
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Politics is a good thing!
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All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.
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Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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The actors feel that the music played before the curtain rises will put the audience in the wrong mood. The playwright suggests that the (purposefully lugubrious) music be played at twice-speed. This peps it up somewhat while retaining its essentially dark and gloomy character. The actors listen carefully, and are pleased.
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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
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I got a job in advertising. So even though I was writing, I was always supporting myself. That's the thing that would matter for my father, who was absolutely a creature of the Great Depression.
