Peter Carey Quotes

I like how they are. I think they're great. And their communities are communities. I have a greater sense of community in New York than almost anywhere I've ever lived. Really, it's terrific.

Peter Carey

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Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

Jerry Hall

TexasWellFourteenLooked

And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.

Jeremy Irons

ShoesMyselfRedPeopleLooking Back

I like New York because you're kind of forced to smell everybody else's funk. So it keeps you biologically attached to the world around you.

Jeffrey Wright

New YorkWorldYouNewKindSmell

I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me a song.' About five minutes later, my ears popped, and I saw everybody in slow motion. Nobody knew what I was experiencing.

Andrae Crouch

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That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.

John Madden

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I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

Max Beckmann

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Coming up, a lot of people I looked up to had a signature sound, but I came up, and I was always in search of one, trying to find it, trying to create one. I was never really able to have a creative signature sound, you know?

Metro Boomin

CreativePeopleSearchTryingYou

Digital surveillance programs require concrete data centres; intelligence agencies are based in real buildings. Surveillance systems ultimately consist of technologies, people, and the vast network of material resources that supports them.

Trevor Paglen

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If you're an actor, there's going to be a sense of fantasy about yourself, especially in the celebrity world we live in today. You give the illusion of being in control, sexy, at ease, with never a difficult moment. Those are the basic lies that all celebrities tell. For me, they're the more dangerous lies to come to terms with.

Rupert Everett

LiveTodayMomentYourselfMeWorld

For me, it was a choice between band and drama - and I hated the band teacher.

Lucy Deakins

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If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out slow and sad because that's most of what I listen to.

Jason Isbell

SadTimePurposeSlowRockListen

When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, when you go to watch movies, the offering that those arenas are doing foodwise is 'all the hot dogs you can eat'; all the French fries you can eat; for $20 you can eat 20 hot dogs.

Jose Andres

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