Per Petterson Quotes
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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I just wear what I like, and lots of it is British.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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I'm used to people talking about me.
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I like darker, mysterious scents and things that reflect my personality.
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I was nine full months In the womb of Ceridwen. Before that I was Gwion, But now I am Taliesin.
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Most people call something profound, not because it is near some important truth but because it is distant from ordinary life. Thus, darkness is profound to the eye, silence to the ear; what-is-not is the profundity of what-is.
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A European who goes to New York and Chicago sees the future... when he goes to Asia he sees the past.
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We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.
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If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
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Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever.
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I'm always late for things and always feel like I'm rushing.
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The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.
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A lot of times when you're acting, you're no longer talking and listening; you're going at it for your own self.
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The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.
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If you're trying to get to the underworld of Berlin, it's not suits and ties; it's rock and roll.
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Arrogance sort of destroys that nervousness because you're having a bunch of people flatter you and tell you you're awesome, and it keeps you from striving as hard for the kind of validation you seek from a good show.
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Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet; for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.
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Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.
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Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.
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God is letting me shine, because I've got a good heart.
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What is design? It's where you stand with a foot in two worlds - the world of technology and the world of people and human purposes - and you try to bring the two together.
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A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.
