Peter York Quotes
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
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I immediately called the command center of the Department of Justice to let them know that my wife was on a plane that had been hijacked. I mainly wanted them know there was another hijacked plane out there.
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The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.
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You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, 'cause you know they're never going anywhere, and at some point, they're going to forgive you.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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(Eating meat) is really on the same moral level as child abuse. It’s the same thing. Animals are like children, they look to us for protection. We should protect them. I really feel quite smug about mad cow disease and foot and mouth and so forth, and I just think ‘Well, what do you expect? People have been saying it for years.'
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Not only are pasta dishes delicious, but they are also great, easy options for a quick dinner during a busy weekday.
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I came over here and worked for rock magazines, and I worked for Rolling Stone, which has a very high standard of journalism, a very good research department.
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I just loved performing. It just made me feel alive. It's scary, but that's part of it. I think it's important to have that extra adrenaline. It gives you that extra zing.
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When I was a child, I wanted to... go into space! To go to Mars. I wanted to explore and explore and explore. I wanted to go to the Lost World in South America - I was heartbroken to discover there were no dinosaurs; I still don't accept it.
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I don't fall in love easily. It's odd; one of the first things I think about when I go out with a woman is what it would be like to be married to her. And yet I have a tough time committing.
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Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.
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When you see how the President makes political or policy decisions, you see who he is. The essence of the Presidency is decision-making.
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As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.
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I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the world.
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The most important thing I learned was the value of personal friendships and working cooperatively with your peers - the Academy has a saying, 'cooperate to graduate,' and that remains a very important central core in my thinking today.
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Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.
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'Driving Home For Christmas' is just a great Christmas song because people are in their cars and driving home.
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John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.
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For me it is not a detachment to take a picture. It's a way of touching somebody - it's a caress… I think that you can actually give people access to their own soul.
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There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.
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Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.
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Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.
