David Peace Quotes
My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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Boys can just wear a suit on the red carpet and that's fine, but for girls it's all about the way you look, and there are constant comparisons.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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When I was little, I wanted to be an astronomer, but that didn't happen.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.
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Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
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Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
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My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.
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There's always a need at a critical time for poetry.
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I still think about that one Jamiroquai video a lot.
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All really great pictures exhibit the general habits of nature, manifested in some peculiar, rare, and beautiful way.
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The disaster-makers always get away, while the innocent are always punished.
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I think I can be competitive. Heck, anybody who can walk to the first tee here has a chance.
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My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.
