Peter Carey Quotes
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.Peter Carey
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I'm cranky.
Larry David -
Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
Rand Paul -
I never really learned photography.
Abbas Kiarostami -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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. -
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 -
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 -
I have a lot of Republican friends.
J. B. Pritzker -
I have lots and lots of party clothes. I mean real party clothes.
Karen Duffy
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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 -
My favorite actor who played villains - who could play anything, really - was Jimmy Cagney.
Malcolm McDowell -
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 -
By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
Barry Sonnenfeld -
When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
Nadia Comaneci -
I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.
Hamish Bowles
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Our concepts of aging really should be blurring because there are plenty of people who make it to older ages who aren't really any different in many ways than people who are decades younger.
S. Jay Olshansky -
When it comes time to go into the booth, I will be writing down President Mike Bloomberg.
James P. Gorman -
We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us.
Francois Rabelais -
Writers are doubters, compulsives, self-flagellants. The torture only stops for brief moments.
Erica Jong -
I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.
Peter Carey