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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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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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 think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.
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He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
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You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.
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I have a job that allows me not to look perfect all the time. I can just go looking the way I look, have my hair just any old type of way.
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If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.
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I was a teenager in the '80s, and I was always a bit dismissive of Houston, as I think a lot of people who considered themselves 'cool music fans' were. She was poppy, bubble gum, making music not considered very cool. But you can't help but dance to some of those songs or feel emotionally affected by 'I Will Always Love You.'
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When I listen to music from different eras, I sense different things. The 1940s music, there's so much optimism and romance, maybe because they just solved the biggest problem on Earth at that time - World War II. In the 1960s, there was so much creativity and innovation in sound.
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Art is a way to get strength from something that is life-affirming. It can be quite violent and still be life-affirming.
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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.