Peter Dinklage Quotes
I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.
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In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.
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I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Some people see life as a game of chess, while others prefer to see it as a game of cricket; but the longer I live, the more I think of it as a game of Consequences.
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It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the unerring power of a woman’s love – is no life at all.
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If it ain't a mess, it'll do till the mess gets here.
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I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
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I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.
