Peter Carey Quotes
When I finished 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.
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I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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Unsettling signs of al Qaeda's aims and skills in cyberspace have led some government experts to conclude that terrorists are at the threshold of using the Internet as a direct instrument of bloodshed.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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It's always an honor to represent your country.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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I got a tattoo saying 'Made in England' above my foot to represent that, that I felt like a doll for so long.
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Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious - that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form; as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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Circumcision in the United States is routinely performed without anesthesia, though anesthesia reduces the infant's stress and prevents infection and blood clots.
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In response to Curt Gowdy's death.
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I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's always hope and possibility where none seems to exist. Many people are so closed to miracles that even when one is boldly staring them in the face, they label it coincidence or serendipity. I call it like I see it.
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There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
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When I finished 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.
