Peter Dinklage Quotes

The leads are often the boring part.

Peter Dinklage

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• In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.

  

  Rand Paul
  • American
  • Decision
  • Young

• If you can prove a guy did cheat, then I don't believe he belongs. I don't believe that there are any guys that did cheat, in that respect, that are in the Hall of Fame. So I think opening up the doors to guys that admittedly cheated or are proven that they did cheat, it kills the integrity of what the Hall of Fame stands for.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Guy

• I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Good
  • Free
  • Reading

• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Flower

• Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.

  

  Larry Craig
  • People
  • Political
  • Flag

• I was born in 1952 in Chidambaram, an ancient temple town in Tamil Nadu best known for its temple of Nataraja, the lord of dance.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Best
  • Dance
  • Born

• The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • High
  • Father
  • Daughter

• Good twists are enormously hard to come by, and I think the best ones are earned ones. The idea that a story can take a left turn on you, it's easy to do, but it has to be done very, very carefully, or else you risk losing the audience's trust.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Done
  • Best

• Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Hard
  • Nothing
  • Awake

• Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Looking

• I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Pretty
  • Nice
  • Fact

• Economics make homeopath and alternative healers look empirical and scientific.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Look
  • Economics
  • Alternative

• That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Think
  • You
  • Painful

• Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • People
  • Truth
  • History

• 'Taxicab Confessions' always cracks me up. And if you are in the mood for a good game show, I like 'Survivor' because it's well made.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Good
  • Game
  • Always

• This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Best
  • Prepare
  • Precept

• I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

  

  J. Cole
  • Heart
  • Feel
  • Path

• The Lord, marks the fall of the smallest sparrow. He knows how so many in authority treat the infirm and the aged. Look at the Napoleons, Caesars and the like. Rather than casting themselves in God's image they made Gods of themselves. and were destroyed. ( Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth. )

  

  Edgar Cayce
  • Great
  • God
  • Earth

• For me he's just a hoax. It's empty. It's not interesting. It's dead. Citizen Kane, which I have a copy of - is all the critics' darling, always at the top of every poll taken, but I think it's a total bore. Above all, the performances are worthless. The amount of respect that movie's got is absolutely unbelievable.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Movie
  • Interesting
  • Respect

• I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like it.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • I Think
  • Fame
  • Disease

• When I started writing, I was reading people such as Tom Clancy or Michael Crichton, who did 'Jurassic Park,' which is possibly the most action-filled book you'll read, apart from mine, and I said to myself, 'Why aren't these guys doing big-scale action like you would see in a movie?'

  

  Matthew Reilly
  • People
  • Writing
  • Why

• So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage.

  

  Margaret Whiting
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Kids

• We must ensure American workers get the long-overdue raise they deserve.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Long
  • American

• The leads are often the boring part.

  

  Peter Dinklage