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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I don't operate under threats. Full stop. I don't. I don't buckle to pressure.
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I know what I am capable of. I read a character, and if I can say to myself, 'I know this woman,' then I take the role.
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I used to be very ambitious. But reality taught me that ambition won't get you everything you want. You need more than just passion and hope. It's important to do what I'm good at and suits me.
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I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
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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.
