Peter Carey Quotes

I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.

Peter Carey

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To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.

Solomon Ortiz

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In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

Michael Musto

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I started doing my own animated movies when I was in ninth grade; that's when I got the filmmaking bug. When I was about 16, I started writing jokes for doing stand up, and then I was 19 and started doing stand up.

Judah Friedlander

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Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.

Douglas Southall Freeman

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We all understand that this isn't about me beating you and you beating me. It's about each individual competing against himself.

Ashton Eaton

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I think most of my films all have a certain tone or intensity in them. They are tense, and you kind of anticipate some kind of catastrophe, but you're not quite sure.

Susanne Bier

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I used to cross-stitch because my mom cross-stitched.

Sutton Foster

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Only a reader can become a writer. Develop a lively intellect and the ability to become interested in anything, no matter how mundane it might seem at first. Look for the story. Develop an eye for detail. Feed your mind and your brain: learn as much as you can about everything you can.

Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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No matter how many times you do it, you don't get used to the sadness - for me at least - of coming to the end of a film.

Paul Thomas Anderson

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Challenge me. Treat me like a game of checkers and play me. That's all I'm asking, just play me. Treat me like Sega and play me.

Shaquille O'Neal

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On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

Scott Turow

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I believe that democracy is about values before it is about voting. These values must be nurtured within society and integrated into the electoral process itself.

Tzipi Livni

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