Pete Hoekstra Quotes
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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When I'm making a film, I'm obsessive about what I do, and I get totally into it. That's all I'm eating, breathing, living at that moment.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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There are many respects in which America, if it can bring itself to act with the magnanimity and the empathy appropriate to its size and power, can be an intelligent example to the world.
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It seems like women are always told, 'It is not your time.'
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.
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Patriarchal religions, like Judaism and Christianity, established and upheld the 'man's world.'
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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I refuse to sit on my laurels.
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I know there are writers who like to say that every novel is hard, and it doesn't get easier. That may be the case, and I've only written two. But the first, to me, was characterized by an enduring oscillation between perseverance and a profound doubt.
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I've met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn't feel like 'networking.' It's both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.
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Ball parks are smaller and baseballs are livelier. They've practically got pitchers wearing straitjackets. Bah! They still allow the knuckleball, and that is three times as hard to control.
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The biggest battle that I have is being a woman in the world. That takes center stage for me.
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The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.
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I'm kind of a grinder. I'm a Cinderella, an underdog story who fights.
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I have never turned to my girlfriend and said, Oh, okay, babe, and I see it in scripts all the time.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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I try to keep myself in what I'm doing and focused on character stuff, as opposed to getting wrapped up in worrying or being nervous. It won't benefit me, in any way, to focus on that.
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Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)
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ISIS filled the vacuum in Iraq and Syria created by a lack of effective governance.
