Peter Dinklage Quotes
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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I'm at a point where I don't have to wait for the income from the record to survive, so I'm in a comfortable zone, but I'll make rap records as long as I feel I have something to rap about.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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War on terrorism defines the central preoccupation of the United States in the world today, and it does reflect in my view a rather narrow and extremist vision of foreign policy of the world's first superpower, of a great democracy, with genuinely idealistic traditions.
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I grew up writing thank-you notes. Real, honest-to-goodness, pen-and-ink, stamped and posted letters. More than simple habit, it's about what the commitment to expressing your thoughts and feelings in writing says about the character of the writer. About the joy such notes bring to the reader.
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I have three incredible nieces and a nephew who's going off to college. To hear them say they're proud of me left me in tears.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'
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We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
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Johnny Depp gave me the best advice. He said, 'Keep your feet on the ground. Stay grounded. Remember where you came from.'
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I've been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to people and pleading my case. Quotes for the book cover, reviews and interviews, readings and radio appearances - all this by simply moving ahead and making contact with folks I thought might enjoy the writing.
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I never went to school. I never went to acting school because I was so scared.
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I first began to tell tales to delight the world and make it wiser...
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I've come to the realization that a lot of our problems are because of a dearth of spiritual values.
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At that time I had complete confidence in Russian policy and I believed that the Western Allies deliberately allowed Russia and Germany to fight each other to the death.
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The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.
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Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
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That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.
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I guess the word to call me is my name, Pete.
