Peter Mayle Quotes
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I'm a character actor.
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I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
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History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
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Movies don't have borders.
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Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.
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You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
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One very clear memory I have of college is that I never learned anything in the big lectures. I have a feeling I'd have done even worse if they'd been on a laptop screen.
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When I sang my father's songs in concert, that was all people wanted to hear. I was always asking myself, 'Can I measure up?'
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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Creativity for me is religious.
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It's good to see that America has a hub for electronic music in Vegas, like Europe has with Ibiza.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.
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What do I like in a girl? I like a girl that likes me, a girl that knows how to smile and see the bright side of things. A girl that makes me a better person.
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My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub.
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Very little happens in my books.
