Peter Mayer Quotes

If you're a serious publisher, you publish books because they work. In other words, they are written well; the reader identifies with the characters. The context seems to be real whether he's writing about the French Revolution or the failure of Lehman Brothers.

Peter Mayer

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I might live in the woods, but I am a lazy actor.

Joe Gilgun

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We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.

Jerrold Nadler

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The scale of the U.K. effort in post-conflict Iraq never matched the scale of the challenge.

John Chilcot

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The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts. A numerous class of men are painfully astonished whenever they find anything, living or dead, in all God's universe, which they cannot eat or render in some way what they call useful to themselves.

John Muir

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I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to do with your life, and that's, I think, what keeps me hopeful.

John Lithgow

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It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny.

Steve Buscemi

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Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving.

Steve Winwood

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The best example is the NBA, with high intensity and long breaks. During the season, the NBA teams play every three days. That's a lot, and they also travel far. But from the end of May until October, they have their break.

Toni Kroos

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I can't speak for other artists; every group has a different approach. For us, it will always be important to keep working hard, dancing better, writing better songs, touring, and setting an example.

RM

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That's really my main message: everyone is stupid, and no one is more stupid than the rest.

Ronny Chieng

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I'm kind of desperately looking for those things that will... you know, sort of show my wilder side, in a way, my much more irreverent, badly behaved side.

Rosamund Pike

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Demands for solidarity can quickly turn into demands for groupthink, making it difficult to express nuance.

Roxane Gay

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