Petra Collins Quotes

Girls are taught to be so afraid to take up any "space," even with their own bodies, and hair is a part of that. I'm glad to not be a part of that!

Petra Collins

• Girl
• Space
• Hair
• Body
• Taught
• Glad

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Good
  • Long
  • Value

• I need instant gratification.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Need
  • Instant
  • Gratification

• If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • High
  • Chance
  • Curiosity

• Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Always
  • Being
  • Apollo

• Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • You
  • Will
  • Too Much

• I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
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  • Imagination
  • Slice

• Life is not easy in politics.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Life
  • Politics
  • Easy

• If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • People
  • World
  • Best

• I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Enjoy

• My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Free
  • Hate
  • Me

• I just feel like if I really believe what Dr. King said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,' then I should be compelled to use my God-given platform to effect change.

  

  Nate Parker
  • God
  • Believe
  • Change

• The pageant movie I'm obsessed with is 'Miss Congeniality', hands down! I could quote everything from that movie. I love so many scenes, but I always find myself quoting the scene when Sandra Bullock goes, 'I really do just want world peace!'

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • World
  • Love
  • Movie

• Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

  

  Randy Castillo Mötley Crüe
  • Music
  • Sports
  • New

• I can pretty much live without fast food. I haven't eaten McDonald's in so long, but it's okay.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Long
  • Live
  • Pretty

• You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Worry
  • Start
  • Year

• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Ugly
  • Engineering
  • Imperfection

• I'm always gonna be compared to the greatest cats that's in the game, but I lack a little bit less when I'm not as visible as other guys. So I live with that thought right there - yo, you still gotta work, still got more to do. One thing where I come from you gotta remember is, don't get souped up.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Work
  • Live

• It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Experience
  • Very
  • Vices

• We will do whatever the government tells us to do, which is a critically important principle of the Chinese market economy, and there is nothing more for discussion about it.

  

  Li Shufu
  • Important
  • Chinese

• Once you get to know me, you would know in a second that I am an East Coast girl. You can tell because I'm not flaky, and I will tell you how it is. I also walk faster than they walk in L.A.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Girl
  • Faster
  • East Coast

• If there was going to be a pioneer of the plus-size girl of my shape on TV, why not me?

  

  Chrissy Metz
  • Why
  • Girl

• There is a cost that comes with moving schools so often and it's not what I want for my son when he gets older, but it did make me very adaptable. I became aware of what was missing from the social structure of each class that I arrived in, and made sure to fill that gap.

  

  Jennifer Ehle
  • Moving
  • Son
  • Missing

• To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.

  

  Sallust
  • Like
  • Friendship
  • Same

• Girls are taught to be so afraid to take up any "space," even with their own bodies, and hair is a part of that. I'm glad to not be a part of that!

  

  Petra Collins
  • Girl
  • Space
  • Hair