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Peter Carey Quotes

I never base characters on real people. There are people who do that but I really don't know how to do it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Know Never Real Real People

A few years ago, the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved bowls... saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality?

Stephen Hawking

Pet City Saying Reality Fish View

I like the idea that one thing leads to another. You can tweet something completely innocuous, and then find yourself going off on a tangent that's inspired by a response.

Yourself You Find Something Going

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Robert Browning

Best Me Grow Old

There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.

Life Funny Women Water Food Three

Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.

Success Failure Inevitable Know Who

Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.

Swami Vivekananda

Goal Stop Awake Reached Arise Until

I want the ball for 90 minutes. When I don't have the ball, I go high pressing because I want the ball.

Go Want Ball High Because Minutes

I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself.

People Doing Admire She Whatever

It's not about what the speaker wants. It's not about necessarily what I want. There's two other principles involved here. It's what the constituents in my district want, and they didn't want to raise the debt ceiling unless there were significant structural reforms and spending cuts to help us balance our budget.

Balance Budget Help Want Principles

Sometimes I go through a yoga phase or a spinning phase, but I try to vary my workouts so my body doesn't get used to any one thing.

Body Go Sometimes Try Spinning Used

The choice of personnel, perhaps the most important choice (because 'people are policy'), never proceeds according to plan, but there have been some successful transitions that upheld high standards.

Richard V. Allen

People Plan Choice Important Never

I think people love to watch me on screen, not my acting talent.

Nushrat Bharucha

Love Talent People Me Think Acting

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