Peter Mullan Quotes
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I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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I like to discover new things.
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From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
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Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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I did not lose this election, or had a bad result compared with what we might have got because of Islam.
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An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
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You can actually eat very clean at Chipotle. They have white rice, they have brown rice, and they have chicken. I stay away from the guac and the sour cream. I just get lettuce, double-meat chicken, and a white or brown rice.
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I was not a girl who grew up buying $100 candles. I was the girl who ran out of gas on her way to an audition.
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Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best, I put before you what I have found to be the best - one who is worthy of all our devotion - Jesus Christ. He is the Saviour for the young and the old. Lord, here I am
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If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.
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Life is much weirder than fiction; nothing's more absurd.
