Daniel Petrie Quotes
They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.
Quotes to Explore
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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I have an appreciation for strong women.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist.
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And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.
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They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old people.' And now many upcoming projects feature older people; it's become a trend.
