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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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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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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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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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 went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research.
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I love dark chocolate. I love it.
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When I learn something new - and it happens every day - I feel a little more at home in this universe, a little more comfortable in the nest.
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I always wanted to be an actor, so I began to prepare myself for a career in acting. I did a course at Kishore Namit Kapoor's acting school. I was with Shiamak Davar's dance school and also did theatre with Nadira Babbar.
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Some people are really good at maneuvering their careers and images and I'm not one of those people.
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I'm just a hired actor who was hired for a particular job, but I think one of the joys of reading the script was the way that the personal and the global are woven together.
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All drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. They’re no good at all. But I’m not going to go around preaching against them.
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Then I repeated these words to my spirits: 'Leave me be; give me peace; and let me do the work of my life. I will never forget you.' Something about that incantation was particularly appealing to me. 'I will never forget you'-- as though one had to address the pride of the spirits, as though one wanted them to feel good about being exorcised.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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The word feminism needs to be taken back. It needs to be reclaimed in a way that is inclusive of men.
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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.
