Peter Mayle Quotes
One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.

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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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He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.
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The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo.
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The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
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It's sad to see these old buildings go because they have so many memories, and it's a real personal kind of thing when you play these places. It's part of our history just gone.
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Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness.
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One must never forget that life is unfair. But sometimes, with a bit of luck, this works in your favour.