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.Per Petterson
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Zoe Kazan -
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.
Barbara G. Walker -
Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
Owen Arthur -
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.
Jacinda Barrett -
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.
Olga Kurylenko -
My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
Malcolm X
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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.
Hailey Bieber -
I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
Rafael Nadal -
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.
Gary Lineker -
As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.
Barry Sternlicht -
I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
Gabby Douglas -
Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
Zara Phillips
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I know what poverty is.
Manny Pacquiao -
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.
Hale Irwin -
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams -
One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
Nathan Myhrvold -
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.
Taylor Swift -
It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
C. V. Raman
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It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of reason is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs.
Aristotle -
I've known Kareem since I was kid. He lived in Manhattan, but my best friend used to go to high school with him, and he was in my house the day I graduated from high school in 1965.
Billy Crystal -
I believe that there is no God. I'm beyond atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy - you can't prove a negative, so there's no work to do
Penn Jillette -
Literature for me isn't a workaday job, but something which involves desires, dreams and fantasy.
Antonio Tabucchi -
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.
Per Petterson