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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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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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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My fans get passionate about certain songs.
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People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your children, also send them to New York.'
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Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical labyrinth that senses the world outside and within, produces love and sorrow, keeps our hearts beating and lungs breathing, composes our thoughts, and constructs our consciousness.
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We're changing the way people are going to look at wrestling, women's wrestling, forever. Forever. And we're at the start of it? That's unbelievable. That's unbelievable! Unbelievable.
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My toughest opponent has always been me.
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I would be the worst person on earth to be called to write an account of someone else's life.
