Peter Scott Quotes
Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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Money won't make you happy... but everybody wants to find out for themselves.
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Everybody dresses like a teenager. Everybody dyes their hair. Everybody is concerned about a smooth face.
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I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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I always put my fantasies in the realm of goals.
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I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.
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I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
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Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case.
