Petra Haden Quotes
I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I kind of went into soap opera with 'General Hospital' in the '80s. It's like theater because every day it's a new script, which really doesn't have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work.
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Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.
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I have a free voice. I have a free mind. I have freedom of expression.
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Can I eventually take classes and eliminate my accent? Sure. I guess anybody could. But this is who I am, and this is what I got. And there are millions of people who sound just like me. Millions. It's not like this is some novelty.
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.
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Our system, for readily apparent reasons, is far superior to those in nations, mostly totalitarian, which presume an arrested person is guilty and place the burden on the accused to prove his innocence.
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In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
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You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.
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I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.
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My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
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The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
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What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
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Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
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God has pity on kindergarten children.
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If you try to go beyond your interests just for the sake of pretensions or wealth, your art becomes less legitimate.
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I end up pleading my case to alternative programmers - you're telling me that my music is too dark for pop, too pop for alternative, and urban radio won't touch it - so we have a record that doesn't fit in. And what is more alternative than that?
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I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.
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I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and thats what I really loved about King Kong.
