Top 40 Peter Cameron Quotes
#1. Martin Scorsese is doing a 3D movie (Hugo Cabret). A lot of amazing filmmakers are. Not just the obvious of Jim Cameron, but Spielberg is doing it and Peter Jackson has worked in it. In the hands of those types of people, it will just keep getting better and better.
Rob Letterman
#2. Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.
Peter Cameron
#3. Oh, I could never go back to that work, it's so dreary and the last thing the world needs is another coffee table book.
Peter Cameron
#4. Are you okay?' she asked me.
Of course,' I said. 'Why wouldn't I be okay?'
There are lots of reasons why you might not be okay.'
There are lots of reasons why anyone might not be okay,' I said.
Peter Cameron
#5. My friend's call me Peter"..."But you can call me Pan."
"Why should I call you Pan?"
"Because Pan is a god, and I practically own you.
Cameron Jace
#6. I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt, not thought. Sometimes I feel like I'm thinking in Swedish without knowing Swedish.
Peter Cameron
#7. I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn't get any worse.
Peter Cameron
#8. You're so young ... Are you sure that's what you want your life to be, forever and ever? That job? That career? That girlfriend?
Peter Cameron
#9. The main problem was I don't like people in general and people my age in particular, and people my age are the ones who go to college.
Peter Cameron
#10. Why? Because you wanted something, and tried to get it. You acted. You acted stupidly, but you acted, and that's the important part. And people often act stupidly when it comes to love. I know I
did.
Peter Cameron
#11. American men are so embarrassed about napping," she said. "They think it is some sort of feminine indulgence. I detest a man who can't nap.
Peter Cameron
#12. It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee."
"No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling reason to do it.
Peter Cameron
#13. It is enough to remember the fact of the happiness.
Peter Cameron
#14. I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.
Peter Cameron
#15. Isn't that what people say: it is better this way? Meaning I cannot bear it but I will. I will close my eyes and stumble forward into the darkness.
Peter Cameron
#16. We believe in what we cannot know or understand. We do not believe in what we know.
Peter Cameron
#17. I like life. I would not want to live forever, but for a little while, life is fine.
Peter Cameron
#18. She had all the best things wrong with her - incest, insanity, drug addiction, bulimia, alopecia: you name it. All the perfect stuff for a memoir. She's so lucky.
Peter Cameron
#19. You're so intent on making your life impossible. It doesn't bode well. Life is difficult enough, you know.
Peter Cameron
#20. Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.
Peter Cameron
#22. Filmmakers have to commit to making 3-D films properly like Jim Cameron did and not do cheap conversions at the tail end of the process.
Peter Jackson
#23. I'm fascinated by lobotomies, the idea of opening up the brain and snipping around a bit and then closing it up again, like fixing a car or something. And the person wakes up and is a little stupid but stupid in a happy, untroubled way.
Peter Cameron
#24. The Hollywood image of the movie business is all about ambition and high achievers like James Cameron. But the British film industry is much more about men who wear cravats and work with model trains and hope another series of 'Thomas the Tank Engine' will be commissioned.
Peter Capaldi
#25. I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.
Peter Cameron
#26. I'm working on a new problem: Find the value for N such that N plus everything else in your life makes you feel all right. What would N equal? Solve for N.
Peter Cameron
#28. Being alone is a basic need of mine like food and water, but I realize it is not so for others.
Peter Cameron
#30. I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing
working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that!
Peter Cameron
#31. I don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like.
Peter Cameron
#32. I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.
Peter Cameron
#33. I knew my mother was right, but that didn't change the way I felt about things. People always think that if they can prove they're right, you'll change your mind.
Peter Cameron
#34. I was initially rather charmed by David Cameron, but I think he's revealing himself to be a slightly darker and less charismatic figure than he first appeared. There's a brutality about him.
Peter Capaldi
#35. New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it's not, it's like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they're one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.
Peter Cameron
#36. It seemed that everyone else could mate, could fit their parts together in pleasant and productive ways, but that some almost indistinguishable difference in my anatomy and psyche set me slightly, yet irrevocably, apart.
Peter Cameron
#37. I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living of said life.
Peter Cameron
#38. I hate when people say 'I see'. It doesn't mean anything and I think it's hostile. Whenever anyone tells me 'I see' I think they're really saying 'Fuck you'.
Peter Cameron
#39. There is the risk you cannot afford to take, [and] there is the risk you cannot afford not to take. PETER DRUCKER
Julia Cameron
#40. She had insisted on keeping the doors and windows shut, as if a sealed chamber could prevent death from entering, or life from leaving her.
Peter Cameron
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