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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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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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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I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.
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I am very proud of my service, and by law, I am defined as a combat veteran.
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I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.
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I'm pretty romantic.
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Consciously risk the loss of something before losing it, and you will lose the fear of losing it.
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I work with my brother Finneas, and he produces all of my music in his little bedroom in our house. We actually tried renting out a studio for a month when we were producing 'Don't Smile at Me,' but it was really hard there, and we ended up just doing it at home anyway.
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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.
