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
  • Never
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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
  • Question
  • Look
  • Make A Difference

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

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Stop
  • Best
  • Always

• Geffen was never supportive of the band.

  

  Edie Brickell
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  • Never
  • Supportive

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

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
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  • Flower
  • Guarantee

• I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Knew
  • Wrote

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

  

  Paddy Ashdown
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• The U.N. had such lofty goals to eliminate poverty and stop war and cure diseases and help refugees - things that no one country could do.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Country
  • War
  • Help

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

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Think
  • Myself

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

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Brave
  • 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
  • Thing
  • Teaching

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

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Nature
  • Know
  • Miracles

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

  

  Vin Diesel
  • 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
  • God
  • Myself
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• It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Money
  • Help
  • Desire

• The millions of laws which exist for the regulation of humanity appear upon investigation to be divided into three principal categories: protection of property, protection of persons, protection of government. And by analyzing each of these three categories, we arrive at the same logical and necessary conclusion: the uselessness and hurtfulness of law.

  

  Peter Kropotkin
  • Law
  • Humanity

• I'm not gonna do the same, tired, standard 'I was born in a log cabin...' kind of book. There's so much more I want to do.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Book
  • Tired

• Now, one thing I tell everyone is learn about real estate. Repeat after me: real estate provides the highest returns, the greatest values and the least risk.

  

  Armstrong Williams
  • Real
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• When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.

  

  Carolyn Wells
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  • Writing
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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