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Peter Carey Quotes

My father left school at the age of fourteen, so this was a man with no deep experience of formal education.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Education Father Age Experience Man

Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too.

Me Now Boy Stuff Some Taught

In the developed world, we are surrounded by electronics - from the computers on our desks to the smart phones in our pockets to the thermostats in our homes to our data in the virtual cloud.

Smart World Computers Data Cloud

My Indian grandmother was born in Punjab.

Born Grandmother Indian

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

John Churton Collins

Fool Easy Difficult Because He

We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK.

Lie Smart Enough Flaws More Human

I'm not a war reporter.

Matthew Heineman

One of the things that make Liars so fascinating after five albums, each one so completely different from the others, is that even though they play around with all the classic tropes of art-damaged angst-noise perv-rock, they exude a totally cheery and boyish enthusiasm onstage, goofing around with their keyboards and beatboxes.

Enthusiasm Play Others Classic Liars

If you like it live, you know that you're probably going to like the record, usually.

Live You Know Going Like Record

Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a signal to the other players, saying, you know, we're going to get Jose Canseco out of the game. This is a cue or a message for you other guys to stop using steroids because the owners lost total control of the steroid use.

Baseball Me Control Saying Game You

As you go along, you literally collect places. I'm fed up with going to places; I shan't go to anymore.

You Go Places Up Going Fed Up

I don't storyboard. I guess it dates back to my days in live television, where there was no possibility of storyboarding and everything was shot right on the spot - on the air, as we say - at the moment we were transmitting. I prefer to be open to what the actors do, how they interact to the given situation.

Live Moment Back Television Movies

Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career - particularly when I was on camera performing - that I had died.

Love Music Me Rest Camera Career

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