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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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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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.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
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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.'
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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.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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No dream is ever chased alone.
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Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.
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Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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There's a huge part of me that's thinking about perfection. I have to fight that urge, to try to live in the moment, reach for something that I might be hearing, and not second-guess myself.
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Life is not perfect.
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You just have to find that thing that's special about you that distinguishes you from all the others, and through true talent, hard work, and passion, anything can happen.
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People die from typewriters falling on their heads.
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I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.
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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.
