Peter Mayle Quotes
You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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The single best piece of advice I give to aspiring writers is to always write about things that they know. I suggest that they write about people and places and events and conflicts they are familiar with. That way their writing will be real and hopefully readers will respond to it. I try to take my own advice.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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The family is the school of duties - founded on love.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
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We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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I always try to learn a few words from a new language wherever I go.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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In a perfect world, I only act when I really want to. I don't do most of the stuff that is out there, but it's a joy and a pleasure to do anything that promotes this higher power - this light, if you will. I just think there aren't enough projects in the world that do that.
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At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.
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Mike Leigh encourages you to choose a person that you know to base your character on. You write a whole list of people that you know and you go through that list in great depth with him. And then he chooses one of those people from your list.
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In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.
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My family is always my priority.
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I was a writer on '30 Rock' for six years.
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You don't like it when a French housewife gets mad at you. If she gets steam behind her, she is an unstoppable creature.
