Peter Carey Quotes
I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.
Peter Carey
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
Nastassja Kinski
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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
Nate Mendel
Foo Fighters
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln
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It's hard to say conversation has become a minimal thing, because look at the rise of mobile communications in the last 10 years. It used to be only the president had a mobile phone. Now everyone on earth, even if they have nothing else, they have a cell phone.
Padgett Powell
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From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence of forgeries on history.
Umberto Eco
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When you're the best, you only want to surround yourself with the best.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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'The mission I am on overrides all personal debts and loyalties.''If so,' said the stranger with fierce certainty, 'it is an immoral mission.'
Ursula K. Le Guin
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I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room
Mercedes McCambridge
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The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success.
Denis Waitley
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Love never doubts or suffers or cries. Love shows no fear, love tells no lies.
Neil Diamond
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I was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 6, 1943, one year to the day before D-Day, the allied invasion at Normandy. The youngest of four children, I was brought up in a wonderfully stable, loving family of strong Midwestern values.
Richard Smalley
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I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.
Peter Carey