Peter Mayle Quotes
One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.
Quotes to Explore
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Cooking is like music: you can tell when someone puts love into it. I come from a place where there was so much attention to detail. The population is smaller in the South, so more attention is given to serving smaller numbers of people.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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I wanted to be a bull rider when I grew up.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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The ceremonial (hot or cold) as opposed to the haphazard (lukewarm) characterizes piety.
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With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.
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One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.
