Peter Dinklage Quotes
I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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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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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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Just because you're selling out shows doesn't mean you deserve better treatment than the person next door.
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I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.
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What's clear - and exciting - is that communication for social change is growing.
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My favourite way of getting ready for a red carpet event is to turn the hair and makeup time into a bit of a pre-party. I use the same artists all of the time, so we know each other so well - so it's a 'hanging with friends' session. Music, lots of laughing, and food - because you must eat before the event.
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Let there be no mistake, Hamas is a ruthless terrorist organization.
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When you play a character you have to ask yourself, 'Can I make sense of what's happening here? Is this authentic?'
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I think successful movies that are based on books are their own thing. I think if you're too faithful, word by word, character trait to character trait, it can hurt the movie.
