Peter Carey Quotes
I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all - even if it does continue to terrify me.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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All good actors are actresses. The more like a woman they are, the better they act, because a man's salvation is his femininity. Women have stronger sensibilities than men, which allows them to go a bit deeper when they are on and off the stage.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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I have been in meetings where a head of state will say, 'I like your tie,' to a man... or, 'I like your country because the weather's good,' or whatever. So for me, the pins in some ways were openers.
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I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.
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In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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On behalf of NARAL Pro-Choice America - and our one million member activists - I am honored to be here to talk to you about what's at stake for women in 2012. I am proud to say that the Democratic Party believes that women have the right to choose a safe, legal abortion with dignity and privacy.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
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What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.
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It's not a problem to be surrounded by other writers if that's the craft that you're doing. I suppose if you get obsessed with the notion of being a writer more than the writing itself, that would be bad. But I live near really smart, thoughtful people who take writing very seriously, and I can meet them for breakfast and talk books.
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America really has no Left party. We have a center-right party - which I would call what the Democrats are now - and then we have the Republicans, a party that drove the Crazy Bus straight into Nut Town.
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I'm just looking for touching characters.
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I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all - even if it does continue to terrify me.
