Peter Carey Quotes
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
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I'm cranky.
Larry David
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
Rand Paul
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I never really learned photography.
Abbas Kiarostami
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I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.
Kangana Ranaut
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I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the same thing about the Internet and all the current technology. It didn't exist like it does now for our parents' generation. Kids aren't relating to their parents anymore, and I just find that so honest.
Magda Apanowicz
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
J. J. Abrams
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I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'
Yvonne Strahovski
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My uncle was the first brown person to have a market stall on Petticoat Lane in the 1960s. He worked his way up from the street. He was homeless, but eventually he got a car so he could sell from the boot. And by the 1980s, he was a millionaire wholesaling to companies like Topshop. So in a way, fashion put me in England.
M.I.A.
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I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.
Ursula Andress
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
Abbas Kiarostami
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The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.
Kaley Cuoco
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I have a lot of Republican friends.
J. B. Pritzker
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I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.
Karen Duffy
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What is obnoxious about the motives of politicians - whatever those motives may be - is that politicians must announce their motives as visionary and grand.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My father was out of my life when I was pretty young - when I was 7 years old, he was gone. I didn't see him for the rest of my childhood.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
Malcolm McDowell
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It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
Danica McKellar
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I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.
Gabriella Wilde
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Be content - Expansions, diffusions - content to be The unspotted imbecile revery, The heraldic center of the world Of blue, blue sleek with a hundred chins, The amorist Adjective aflame...
Wallace Stevens
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I am super-proud to have a sort of famous character in my background that if you're a certain age, he was probably a part of your youth. I think that's pretty cool.
Adam Brody
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
Tariq Ali
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When I put Foster The People together, I just wanted to play music with friends.
Mark Foster Foster the People
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I believe that the crazy combative patriotism that plainly threatens to destroy civilisation to-day is very largely begotten by the schoolmaster and the schoolmistress in their history lessons. They take the growing mind at a naturally barbaric phase and they inflame and fix its barbarism.
H. G. Wells
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Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
Peter Carey