Petra Haden Quotes
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
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The vampires in the 'VAMPS' series judge each other as harshly as they judge humans, and basically, vampires don't get along very well. So you've got a culture that's from cradle to grave like the worst high school you've ever been in.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.
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When you're serving at the local level, you have to build strong personal relationships to get things done.
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I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.
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People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.
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I mean, we must act with intelligence. We must work on this framework, so that immigration becomes an asset to both nations. Believe me, what - just the Mayor Bloomberg said here in New York, that this city would be stopped, totally stopped if it were not by the immigrants working here.
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I'm from Dagestan, I'm born in Dagestan, and Dagestan is a different level for people living a tough life, people living in the mountains.
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I have experienced a tremendous amount of personal and professional growth, and I feel incredibly lucky that I'm able to make a career out of doing the things that I love.
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I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.
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I always related my favorite music to the movies.
