Peter Dinklage Quotes

Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

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• One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Know
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• If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

  

  Taylor Wilson
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• Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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• Geffen was never supportive of the band.

  

  Edie Brickell
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• Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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• I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
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• It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
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• I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
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• Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
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  • Cat
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• The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Knowledge
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• Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nature
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• I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Writing
  • Style
  • Best

• I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.

  

  Barnett Newman
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• Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

  

  Irving Babbitt
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• I haven't had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

  

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• I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
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• It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
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• Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.

  

  Jon Katz
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• There's one thing better than having a great actor, and that's having a great actor who's never done this kind of role before and is hungry to do it. They're testing themselves every day. They want to get out of their trailer and get to work.

  

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• I've always acknowledged my debt to Hammer. I've always said I'm very grateful to them. They gave me this great opportunity, made me a well known face all over the world for which I am profoundly grateful.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • World
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  • Opportunity

• The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.

  

  Denis Leary
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• Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.

  

  Lord Byron
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• Writing is getting killed by too many chefs. Back in the Bogart days, it started with great scripts. You had a writer, and he wrote a script, and that was your movie. I think that's been watered down a bit lately.

  

  Peter Dinklage
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Movie