Peter Dinklage Quotes
I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.
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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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I'm actually quite a nice person. It's to do with the way I look, an uncompromising sort of face, brusque delivery and voice, and I think the combination of all that. When I'm doing pantomime, children will scream the place down before I open my mouth. There's obviously something that really gets them.
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
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The good romances are as good as anything.
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I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I'm wrong about this, I guess I'll become a bum.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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I believe people should live full lives and not settle for anything less.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
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I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
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It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person. Then I meet other writers and realize that they're not.
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The only people who usually have input on my writing are my wife and my editor. I'm not in conversation with anyone except the people I report on and the people I work with.
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
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I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
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I believe in an America where the free enterprise system flourishes for all other systems to see and admire - where no businessman lacks either competition or credit - and where no monopoly, no racketeer, no government bureaucracy can put him out of business that he built up with his own initiative.
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What's really interesting about actors, is that we all have opinions on how people's careers look, but I think you never have any idea of your own, or what other people think of you.
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The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.
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Common sense is a phrase employed to denote that degree of intelligence, sagacity, and prudence which is common to all men.
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I think with a lot of filmmakers, their first film is their best film because they had to think on their feet and solve problems with ingenuity.
