Petra Nemcova Quotes
So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.
Quotes to Explore
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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Nobody asked how you looked, just what you shot.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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As a filmmaker whose first film was made with the DIY tools of digital cinema, I love how the democratization of the filmmaking process and platforms like YouTube enables people to tell stories that in previous generations simply could not be told.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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I'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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I know we will look back on this and think how odd it was we were championing the rights of lone mothers to bring up their children on benefit.
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I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!
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My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.
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I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.
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I don't respond to authority figures who abuse their authority.
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One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
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Growing up, I was the plain one. I had no style. I was the tough kid with the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair.
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Whatever's going on in my life shows up in the writing room.
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Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen.
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I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.
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Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'
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I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?
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I want to make sure that we, as a nation, stay unified because that's how we're going to achieve our missions.
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So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.
