Peter Gould Quotes
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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I went to Catholic high school for half a year and religion wasn't the cool thing to talk about even at a catholic high school. It never came up.
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In theory, I stick to how I could eat if I lived a thousand years ago. I take processed foods off the menu, and stick to things I could hunt or gather, with more fruits, vegetables, and nuts - and less meat.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I'm not into the attention thing so much.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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For anyone who's been in care, successfully coming through the system is nothing to with money or success; it's the ability to feel love and be loved in return.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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Interesting things always come from being really exhausted and really sick.
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Honestly, I've always had difficulty relaxing, unwinding and going to bed - that kind of stuff.
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One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to without feeling guilty.
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job, and not be paid for it.
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I'm a very lucky man. It's a beautiful thing for a writer, to see people allowing your words to enter their own unconscious and their souls.
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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
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My favorite monster has always been the zombie. They are so much fun. They can be scary, pathetic, sad, funny, tragic, even heroic. They are the most elastic monster because, even with all of that, they don't interfere with telling stories about the humans. They serve as threats and metaphors, but they allow the story to be about people.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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I love scenes with minimal dialogue.
