Peter Diamandis Quotes
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I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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I get a lot of people telling me that I'd make a good 'wacky neighbor.' I wouldn't mind that, if it was a starting-off point.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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About a year after leaving drama school or a year and a half - and I was working solidly ever since leaving drama school - I picked up 'Game of Thrones.'
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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I appreciate the change associated with people's growth, but I don't like the changes in our lives. I came to Mumbai in 1945, so imagine my acceptance of the massive changes around. I have witnessed every kind of revolution.
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I have a wife and a son and daughter. What do I need to do to make their lives better, happier? What can I do in terms of my time or my attention given that I am very busy at work? That's a personal rule of thumb I live by from the moment I get up to the moment I go to bed.
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Britain is doing brilliant things around the world and that is why I described as a 'superpower on development.'
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I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
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I'm really a pacifist.
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