Peter Carey Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
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Attempting to get at truth means rejecting stereotypes and cliches.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.
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I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
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In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.
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I take being a role model very seriously.
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If my girls are rude, it's over. There is no place in the world for it.
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'Ernest Borgnine' is sort of my version of Woody Allen's 'Purple Rose Of Cairo' in that it's about the occasional difficulty of coming to terms with the cold hard facts and the temptation to escape into another world - like movies, for example. I'm a pro at escaping.
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Maybe there's two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans.
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... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
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Australia is my lens. I cannot see the world any other way.
