Peter Straub Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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That's what everybody calls me, 'Cheat Code,' because they just throw the ball up to me.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
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History, whether sacred or profane, hides her teaching from those who study her through coloured glasses. She only reveals truth to those who look through the cold clear medium of passionless inquiry, who seek the Truth without determining first the masquerade in which alone they will receive it.
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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
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My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
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There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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To me, curiosity is married to optimism. And that's where a lot of my motivation comes from. A lot of my way out of depression and anxiety is that intersection between optimism and curiosity. Because it means taking a step forward with the hope that there will be discovery.
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I come from nothing, and growing up, I really didn't have many people to inspire me, at least no good people to inspire me.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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In the end, I am quite normal. I don't have odd habits. I don't dramatize. Above all, I do not romanticize the act of writing. I don't talk about the anguish I suffer in creating. I do not have a fear of the blank page, writer's block, all those things that we hear about writers.
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Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.
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Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.
