Pete Hoekstra Quotes
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I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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Spontaneity is what travel is all about.
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One of the most precious parts of acting is the work before you show up on the set, the time you spend being with your character before you bring that character to life. To me, that's the most rewarding part of it all. It feels very good to show up on a set just knowing that's with you.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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I'm proud to be among a bipartisan group of state attorneys general who consistently advocate against government infringement of Americans' Second Amendment rights.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I don't analyse things, and I don't look back. I can think forward - but only about my family. I don't look outside that and certainly don't care what anyone else thinks.
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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.
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If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.
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What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.
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You can only live to be so old, then you gotta let go.
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We are still so close, David and I. We were at a party the other day at my mum's house and I was sitting on his lap. We're very affectionate. And I looked at him and thought after being married for 11 years! We were the only couple who were even near each other at that party. We're soul mates.
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What kind of people would be able to rationalize better than other people? Better storytellers, right? Creative people, right? Because if you're creative, you find more ways to cheat and still yourself a story about why this is okay.
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Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders.
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Most of my characters aren't hillbillies anyway. Let's just call them proletariat with a disposition towards criminal activity.
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What counts is putting the intensity that you yourself have experienced into the picture. Otherwise it is just a document.
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Obamacare became the disaster that its detractors always said that it would become.
