Peter De Vries Quotes
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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I realised that you couldn't use the tools of yesterday to communicate today's world. Basically, that was the big light that went on in my head.
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Power focuses on self-preservation; principle focuses on making ideas successful.
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Disinterring famous people has become a kind of sport in the Hispanic world. Before Cervantes, it happened to Evita, Che Guevara, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Pablo Neruda.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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Usually, I just don't care what I look like. If it's cold, I'm, like, putting on whatever I have to to be warm.
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I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
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I think 'Dark Blue' came to me while I was doing a project in London. I read it, and the character immediately popped out at me.
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Supergirl is such an iconic brand, and for me to be able to be the new face of it is extremely exciting.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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I tried to be a goth for a while. I'd pour baby powder on my face and paint my lips black, but that didn't last long. I thought I looked cool at the time. But then you look back and wonder, 'Why did anyone let me out of the house looking like that?'
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I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?
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Every time I learn a new thing to do on my computer, I have to write it down so that I can remember it.
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Nobody is the color of translucent powder. Instead, choose a powder that matches your skin tone.
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The Confederates had suspected Wild Bill of being a spy for two or three days, and had watched him closely.
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Ultimately, I conclude that however we understand existence, what gives meaning to our lives are those things that serve our neurochemically based emotional self-interest in a sustainable way.
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I want the reader to join me on an intellectual and emotional journey into some major aspect of existence.
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Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
