Peter Paige Quotes
I think so much of adolescence is about finding your tribe, and what kids today have that we did not have is access to the whole world.
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I was mostly an indoor girl at university. Where other students did drama or music or sport alongside their degrees, I wrote. I used to work on essays and classwork during the day and 'The Bone Season' in the evenings.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I never liked you, and I always will.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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I buy when other people are selling.
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I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.
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One should also remember that the U.S. is the biggest exporter of torture weapons in the world, though the U.K. is not far behind in the league table. We never stopped, even under Robin Cook's supposedly ethical foreign policy.
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As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.
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If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
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As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned waters of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them.
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Popular applause veers with the wind.
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I respect women like Gloria Steinem who paved the way. But when you say 'feminist' now, there is a message that if you are sexy and you acknowledge that part of your personality publicly, then it's somehow an affront to women. And I reject that.
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I think so much of adolescence is about finding your tribe, and what kids today have that we did not have is access to the whole world.
