Peter De Vries Quotes
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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Over the years, I have worked very hard to achieve what I have so far. But I've not been alone in this journey. A lot of the credit for this goes to my fans - it's because of them that I'm here today.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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When Nandita expressed a desire to write about me, I couldn't stop her because she's my wife, but she has forgotten who she is.
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The feeble soul merely whines and complains.
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I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'
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I don't know what they're thinking about. Just because someone says, 'I like what you do' or something: They might like it today and tomorrow they might not. I've had that experience with record companies.
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I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
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I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.
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The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.
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When I'm making an American film, it's more safe because there are so many people on the set to watch me. Whatever I do, they say, 'What are you doing!? Tell me first!' There are so many restrictions.
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It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.
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At the same time, we’ll engage Russia to seek further reductions in our nuclear arsenals, and continue leading the global effort to secure nuclear materials that could fall into the wrong hands - because our ability to influence others depends on our willingness to lead and meet our obligations.
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'It is a mistake,' he said, 'to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century.'
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Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.
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No one is guiltless...But no one is beyond the pale of human existence, provided he pays for his guilt.
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Not that this appears to affect the intentions of the political-bureaucratic elite, which in Britain as elsewhere in Europe believes that it has an overriding mission to achieve European integration by hook or by crook and which is convinced that History (with an extra-large 'H') is on its side.
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His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered.I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears. And deep inside me, if I could have searched the recesses of my feeble conscience, I might have found something like: Free at last!
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A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.
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All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
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The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
