Petra Stunt Quotes
My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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The fact is, it's hard to release movies.
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After engaging in acts of war against another nation, there exists a degree of uncertainty in terms of the enemy's reactions. War inspires an unpredictable psychology and evokes strong emotions that defy systems analysis quantification.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
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There's almost too much venture capital in India - there are issues with seed capital, but for venture capital, there's a lot money chasing deals here.
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Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.
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We live in a society where everything's packaged.
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You don't start shooting rockets at Israel and expect that we'll just sit back supinely and die.
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I have lived my whole life with high intensity.
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I started my own business because my parents had no dowry for me, and I was worried. I ran it from their Martha Vineyard's summer house. I baby-sat for a 14-year-old boy all summer and was giving him time-outs, even though I was two years younger than him.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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My parents were very well-off, but we didn't have a crazy-huge house. We didn't have thousands of workers and staff; it was just my mum doing the majority of the housework. We didn't have nannies. I wasn't brought up in any sort of extravagant way.
