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I would love to play Richard III.

Peter Dinklage

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• Republicans traditionally say, 'oh, we'll cut domestic spending, but we won't touch the military.' The liberals - the ones who are good - will say, 'oh, we'll cut the military, but we won't cut domestic spending.'

  

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• The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.

  

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• She's been on more laps than a napkin.

  

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• I'm attracted to heartbreakers.

  

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• The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.

  

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• Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

  

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• When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.

  

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• Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.

  

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• Arab-led Islamic fundamentalism destabilizes nations from Algeria to the Philippines.

  

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• Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.

  

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• I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

  

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• In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

  

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• People are going to get older and young guys are going to come in and race and get more competitive.

  

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• He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

  

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• Give the peasants neither life nor death.

  

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• If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

  

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• I once looked over the shoulder of a friend on Facebook and it looked like hieroglyphs to me. There's merit online, of course, but social media gets super freaky. Imagine if three generations from now, people online have forgotten what date or day of the week it is.

  

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• I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

  

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• It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

  

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• Everyone has got the fear It's holding on It's holding on.

  

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• I want to direct. It's something that I know I'll be really good at.

  

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• I'm not a young man, and I can find intensity in a lot of different ways, sometimes without even raising my voice. When I was younger, it was all about how I need three extra sets of lungs to get enough wind to get out the thing at the screaming level I need to, because that's the way it needs to be. Now, I see that there's a whole lot of other colors on the palette.

  

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• I would love to play Richard III.

  

  Peter Dinklage