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 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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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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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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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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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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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.
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Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.
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Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
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But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.
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Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.
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Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
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To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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When I finished 'True History of the Kelly Gang,' I realised that Faulkner had not lost his power over me.
