Peter De Vries Quotes
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
Quotes to Explore
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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To make money, I did portraits . The truth is so bizarre! I'm kind of embarrassed. I was like a 19th-century pirate painter. I'd say, 'Your mom would love a painting of you!' A salesman! I'd hawk paintings.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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I take my work seriously.
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I hate giving advice, because people won't take it.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I'm an entrepreneur. I'm married to an entrepreneur. So I haven't just sipped the entrepreneurship cool-aid, I bleed this stuff.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
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I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.
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I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.
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Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.
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People always like things that seem exotic.
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One truth discovered is immortal, and entitles its author to be so; for, like a new substance in nature, it cannot be destroyed.
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Working with Anthony Hopkins every day is a blessing.
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Shetland has always been a place of sanctuary for me. I visited when I dropped out of university, and I just loved it from the minute I got there. It's a bleak but very beautiful place.
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The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
