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Peter Carey Quotes

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Beautiful Ambition World Mad True

I can prove my worth and hopefully get a drive in LMP1 with a constructor in the future.

Jean-Eric Vergne

Future Drive Worth I Can Prove Get

That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.

Debate Argument Missing Things

I used to be more of a purist about literature. I thought, 'If it's a really propulsive story, then maybe there's something unliterary about it.'

Steven Heighton

Story Thought Literature More Used

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

Birthday Music Day People Mom Song

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.

Life Think Important Things Happened

I went along to the audition and I had one page of lines, and I didn't think it went particularly well.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

Think Page Lines Well Along Had

I wanted to be a baseball player, but I became fascinated with wrestling as a teenager.

Baseball Wrestling Baseball Player

I'm a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing... I'm not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well, and the days of arriving with steamer trunks and hat boxes are over.

Hat Kind Over Diva Days Well

Wild geese have so much less fat than their domestic brethren that, as far as the kitchen is concerned, the two birds should be considered different species altogether - so much so that they require opposite roasting methods.

Birds Kitchen Fat Wild Two Opposite

Vince McMahon made me a much better businessman, and I'm super thankful to him.

Diamond Dallas Page

Thankful Me Better Him Made Much

'Ten Year' was probably - I might say 'Ten Year' was my favorite filming experience of anything I ever worked on. It was totally different from 'Moneyball' in that it was a small budget, independent movie. It had a giant ensemble of actors, all of whom were basically working for free.

Experience Small Free Budget Year

Fortunately, the Canadian people in all their habits, are essentially a temperate people.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

People Habits Canadian Temperate

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