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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• 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
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• 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.

  

  Vin Diesel
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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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• No dream is ever chased alone.

  

  Rahul Dravid
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• A man who doesn’t detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

  

  Peter Fonda
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• I'm a passionate, hardcore fisherman. Biggest fish I caught? A 200-pound tarpon.

  

  Dwayne Johnson

• People come to me to write songs that will be successful for them, and they allow me the freedom to do so.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • People
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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
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