Peter Dinklage Quotes
I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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I don't go out anywhere. I don't go to nightclubs, so meeting somebody in the nightclub is out of question.
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Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.
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Every major player is working on this technology of artificial intelligence. As of now, it's benign... but I would say that the day is not far off when artificial intelligence as applied to cyber warfare becomes a threat to everybody.
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It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.
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Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.
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Most of my ideas come from drawing patterns across conversations I have with different types of people - technology investors, young fashion design students, a CEO. This variety is stimulating and offers many different perspectives on the things I am thinking about.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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I don't have that kind of Southern experience of the fire-and-brimstone preacher type of thing. Certainly not in my comedy.
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Be good to people, be kind to people, show up, read the lines, hit the mark, and go home.
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I finally faced the fact that it isn`t a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.
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I knew from the start that I wanted my life to be about music. I taught myself the notes of the piano aged three, and then I spent the next few years deconstructing chords to figure out how to play them. At 11, I researched online the sort of music school I wanted to attend, printed out the details, and handed them to my parents.
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I am a frighteningly thorough person.
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In particular, the film 'Excalibur' was definitely one of those films that was instrumental in me realizing that I wanted to become an actor.
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I think my mom drove by a nuclear power plant when she was pregnant. But I wouldn't be in 'The Station Agent' if she hadn't.
