Peter Carey Quotes
I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.
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Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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There are no rules, no models; rather, there are no rules other than the general laws of Nature.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
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There can be a lot of mind games going on between the players. When you're about to serve, people will try to throw you off your rhythm by taking a walk. If you're tired, you can't show that at all to an opponent.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.
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I'm a perfectionist, so everything I put out needs to be, like, 100 percent. So when it comes to releasing things on my YouTube channel, I triple-quadruple check it before I post it because this has got to be ready for the amount of people who are going to be watching, for sure.
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I moved from Cleveland to L.A. with a girlfriend, we broke up, and I lived out of my car for a year and a half, on the road with nothing on my mind but getting my act good enough to be on 'The Tonight Show.'
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I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.
