Per Petterson Quotes
I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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I know what poverty is.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
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I don't know how to have a normal relationship because I try to act normal and love from a normal place and live a normal life, but there is sort of an abnormal magnifying glass, like telescope lens, on everything that happens.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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Being back on stage in New York, off-Broadway - I mean, that's an actor's dream.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
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It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow.
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I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.
