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 would like to know what politicians eat on the campaign trail, what Picasso ate in his pink period, what Walt Whitman ate while writing the verse that defined America, what mid-westerners bring to potlucks, what is served at company banquets, what is in a Sunday dinner these days, and what workers bring for lunch.
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I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply.
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There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a talking man having nothing to say.
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Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
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When I was growing up, in the '80s and '90s, I just never really saw myself reflected in the things that I had a liking for. It makes a difference.
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I write about families. That is who we are.
