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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Europe must not distance itself from Africa's universal ambitions.
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A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
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When I was younger, I was almost too afraid to admit that I wanted to be an actor. I didn't know any successful actors in Kenya, so I felt like I could get away with going to college to study film more easily than I could with saying, 'I want to be an actor.' That's what I did.
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I learned that I enjoy directing a lot more than I enjoy writing, which is interesting, because writing is lonely and infamous basically.
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Because of technology today, we expect kids to stay in touch with us too much. I think that's unnatural. We really do have to give kids their freedom and allow them to go off and become adults.
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I love scenes with minimal dialogue.
