Peter Straub Quotes
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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I've made a dozen films in the English language. But then, for love, for my family and friends, I returned to Europe... I annoyingly - looking back - turned down films like 007, 'For Your Eyes Only,' written specially for me.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
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My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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There were no theatre facilities at the comp that I went to, but I did have amazing teachers who never stopped encouraging me.
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When people start to think they're figuring out 'The Vampire Diaries,' it switches on you.
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I feel better all day if I start off by eating healthy. Breakfast is simple: multigrain toast with natural peanut butter, oatmeal, yogurt, fruit, or healthy cereal.
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War is the health of the State and it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution.
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My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require.
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In exasperation, I furiously attacked the floors and walls of the Moscow Theater. My mural paintings sight there, in obscurity. Have you seen them? Rant and rave, my contemporaries! In one way or another, my first theatrical alphabet gave you a belly-ache. Not modest? I'll leave that to my grandmother: it bores me. Despise me, if you like. (ca. 1921)
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I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes.
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All our projects are like fabulous expeditions. The story of each project is unique. Our projects have no precedent.
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Stupidity took me pretty far.
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To some degree. I know I couldn't do it anymore.
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I dream for a living.
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This dumb little moment was the first time I heard a stranger hating me in public. I knew then, for real, that thousands of people were having the exact conversation all over the world every moment of every day. Those people were real and their thoughts were formed by overblown or just straight made up stories about me that I could never adequately defend myself against. People all over the world whom I had never met and would never meet hated me. HATED. And what they thought about me was completely out of my control.
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The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it.
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Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
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I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do.
