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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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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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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If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.
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I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.)
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
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What I love about 'Mockingjay, Part 1' is that President Coin or Cressida could have easily been played by a man, and if you look at 'Interstellar,' the Anne Hathaway or Jessica Chastain roles would have been men years ago.
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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.
