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Peter Carey Quotes

One has to be able to twist and change and distort characters, play with them like clay, so everything fits together. Real people don't permit you to do that.

Peter Carey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: australian
Birth: May 7, 1943

Topics

Change Together People You Play

I don't watch my films. I've seen 'em enough after cutting them and putting the music on. I don't ever want to see them again.

John Carpenter

Music Enough Want See Watch Seen

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.

Stewart Copeland

Music Hands Selling Market Been

If you got more than one letter from somebody who said they hated you, it meant they kept watching.

Trevor Moore

You Said More Watching Got Somebody

Over the years, people have often said to us that they were going through some horrible thing in their life - maybe the worst thing that had ever happened, or that they could think would ever happen - and that, somehow, in that state, we made them laugh. And I was like, 'That's a wonderful calling.'

Robin Quivers

Life People Think Laugh Said Worst

I'd love to do another film version of 'Romeo & Juliet.' I'm not too picky as long as it's a good story.

Rutina Wesley

Love Good Story Long Film Picky

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

Rupert Penry-Jones

Me Mad Paradise Play Able Jack

Sharing bad news with strangers is most certainly a selfish act.

Mike Gallagher

Selfish Strangers Bad News Sharing

Hunter High School was a real turning point for me. I found out about its existence through the music school. Nobody I knew had gone to one of these special high schools, and my teachers didn't think it was possible to get in. But Hunter sent me a practice exam, and I studied what I needed to know to pass the exam.

Mildred Dresselhaus

Music School Practice Me Think Know

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

Brian Keene

Writing You Down Sitting Netflix

I get to surf every day.

Brandon Cruz

Day Every Day Get Every Surf

You cannot qualify war in harsher terms than I will.

William Tecumseh Sherman

War You Will Cannot Than Terms

Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James

People Think Thinking Many Merely