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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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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I like the work that I get to do.
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Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
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Nelson, re. Annabelle ...'she wants what everybody wants. She wants love.'
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When you work in form, be it a sonnet or villanelle or whatever, the form is there and you have to fill it. And you have to find how to make that form say what you want to say. But what you find, always--I think any poet who's worked in form will agree with me--is that the form leads you to what you want to say.
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I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.
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He seems to think that posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
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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.
