Petter Stordalen Quotes
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.
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Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.
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I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
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My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'
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Negative politics have always been around.
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I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.
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A precise language awaits a completed metaphysics.
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When you are happy and in love and when you have children, then maybe you are beautiful.
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If you can market smut and toilet paper, you can market movies.
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My dad had a series of heart attacks when I was a little girl, and our world was shaped by these huge, traumatic events.
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I did not have a personal relationship with Jesus until I met my nanny, who helped me through a failing marriage and raising my two boys in a New York City apartment. She showed me by example what it was like to be able to talk to Jesus and bring all my cares and worries to Him. That was in 1990.
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Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.
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I always tell my students to write the story all the way through, not to play with the language and fall in love with sentences that you then have to cut. I actually find that really difficult to do; there's something so demoralizing about looking at a pile of not very great sentences. As I ease into writing every morning, I tweak a sentence and then tweak a paragraph.
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We are losing our superstars like Johnny and June Carter Cash and that breaks my heart.
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Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.
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In an information society, education is no mere amenity; it is the prime tool for growing people and profits.
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What is good for society is also good for business.
