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 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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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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NASA has to approve whatever we wear, so there are clothes to choose from, like space shorts - we wear those a lot - and NASA T-shirts.
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Superfluous lags the vet'ran on the stage.
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Blizzard was of the fine old school of butlers. His appearance suggested that for fifteen years he had not let a day pass without its pint of port. He radiated port and pop-eyed dignity. He had splay feet and three chins, and when he walked his curving waistcoat preceded him like the advance guard of some royal procession.
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Nine days after an attack on the United States, this tiny clique of intellectuals Neocons was telling the President of the United States...that if he did not follow their war plans, he would be charged publicly with a 'decisive surrender' to terrorism.
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I take yoga classes, do a mile run, and of course take part in some kind of water sport.
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There's another film - a little Greek movie - that hopefully is going to get some distribution here in the U.S., called 'Worlds Apart,' where I also play a 60-year-old guy who looks a lot like J.K. Simmons, who has a romantic relationship with an appropriate woman.
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I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in 'Publisher's Weekly,' and it looks like it will be dark, I'll track it down.
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I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period.
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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.
