Dale Peck Quotes
I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
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The room-service Caesar salads with soggy croutons, the distant relatives who show up at readings pitching weird, far-fetched investment schemes, the fans who have you sign a book to 'Cathy' and then tell you, 'No, it's Kathy with a K' - it gets challenging after a while. It tests your stamina.
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Zef is the underbelly of the Afrikaans culture, but it also, like, is Afrikaans culture.
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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I'm very good about eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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For me, the most important thing is running a good clubhouse. The X's and the O's – you sit up in the stands and, for the most part, a lot of fans go to the game and they know what's going to happen. You're going to hit and run, steal, put a pitcher in, take a pitcher out.
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It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
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I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
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Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.
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Well if you don’t want me to grow up talkin‘ that way, why do you send me to school?
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The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.
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Into this neutral air Where blind skyscrapers use Their full height to proclaim The strength of Collective Man, Each language pours its vain Competitive excuse.
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In my end is my beginning - that's what people are always saying. But what does it mean? And just where does my story begin? I must try and think...
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I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.
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Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.
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When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!
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Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that.
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That childhood passion and involvement and being really submerged in something, that's the kind of state I'm looking for all the time - and preserving that sense of magical possibility and wonder that children have. I think, for artists, if you can stay connected to that, then you are in a good place.
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I'm a novelist. I think fiction is important or I wouldn't be doing it, but most of it's bad.
