Per Petterson Quotes
When my mother talked about her brother, there was this light in her eyes. I thought, 'This is the basis of a novel.'Per Petterson
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The correct didactic analysis is one that does not in the least differ from the curative treatment. How, indeed, shall the future analyst learn the technique if he does not experience it just exactly as he is to apply it later?
Otto Rank -
The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
Patrick Duffy -
Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
Walter Reisch -
Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
P. J. O'Rourke -
No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
Harlan Coben
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
Wayne Coyne -
Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.
Dan Hill -
Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
Patrick Lencioni -
I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
Natalie Martinez -
Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
Felicia Hemans -
I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done while sitting in coffee-stained pajamas in front of a computer rather than prowling around a huge stage in sweaty leather pants, so I have to get my kicks vicariously.
Kate Christensen
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Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.
Aaron Neville -
You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
F. W. de Klerk -
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
Naguib Mahfouz -
I have a lot of kids in my district who haven't been to the beach, much less Washington, D.C., and that's 20 miles away.
Xavier Becerra -
I support capital punishment. But let's be clear: It's a decision for each state to make.
Ted Cruz
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I wouldn't do my roles if I really hated it. I've done things I hated, but I didn't go into them thinking I would hate them. I want to have fun. I don't want to go to work and not enjoy it. So if I'm swirling around on some wires, talking to Fred Flintstone, I make it the funnest I can. I also want to be good at it. I don't want to be a crap cartoon character. I want to be proud I'm a vitamin!
Alan Cumming -
I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.
Eddie Slovik -
I snack on fruit and nuts. In the middle of my long workouts, I'll have a protein shake.
Lindsey Vonn -
To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
Oscar Wilde -
I think that Freud understood absolutely nothing about women - as he himself said.
Simone de Beauvoir -
When my mother talked about her brother, there was this light in her eyes. I thought, 'This is the basis of a novel.'
Per Petterson