Per Petterson Quotes
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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Everything was magnificent so far, even if I knew my part of dramas.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
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I didn't ever plan to be a producer, and I didn't really know what I was getting myself into.
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Performing on stage is what I've done since I was a kid and it's where the passion that has started from the very beginning for me, and that's what I'm going to enjoy.
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When I was a general assignment reporter early in my career, I was the one knocking on their door after a tragedy.
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I've never been to jail. I've never been arrested. I've never been locked up.
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It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned.
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All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
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While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
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Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.
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Since the adjournment of Congress the ratifications of the treaty with Great Britain for abolishing the mixed courts for the suppression of the slave trade have been exchanged. It is believed that the slave trade is now confined to the eastern coast of Africa, whence the slaves are taken to Arabian markets.
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The moment I am aware that I am aware, I am not aware. Awareness means the observer is not.
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so the moral of this week is: if u do something really, really stupid in front of someone ur just getting to know & they still think youre awesome, then you got yourself a friend.
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I've done maybe twelve of Shakespeare's plays. I was with the Royal Shakespeare Company for years. Whatever influence that has never leaves you. If you learn to drive a car, and you learn the right way if there is ever a right way. You learn the good aspects, you learn to drive properly. And that never leaves you.
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I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is.
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At the appointed time, necessities become ripe. That is the time when the Creative Spirit (which one can also designate as the Abstract Spirit) finds an avenue to the soul, later to other souls, and causes a yearning, an inner urge.
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The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief.
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I knew I didn't have the right name for a singer. Having a name that nobody could pronounce was hardly an asset.
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I write about families. That is who we are.
