Nick Petrie Quotes
Character drives the story, and the story drives the book. I don't think about where the action should go, or how much there should be, until it's required by the characters. When I find myself adding conflict just because I'm afraid that the reader might get bored, I know I've taken a wrong turn somewhere.Nick Petrie
Quotes to Explore
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
T. D. Jakes -
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
N. T. Wright -
I can't take the theater side out of myself.
Laura Bell Bundy -
I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
What makes you a Christian is whether or not you really are in accord with biblical theology and whether you know Jesus Christ as your Saviour.
Walter Martin -
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
Gary Wolf
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Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.
Indira Gandhi -
Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.
Karl Shapiro -
I'm not against gay people.
Manny Pacquiao -
It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.
Joanne Rowling -
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant -
I believe Corot painted a tree better that any of us, but still I find him superior in his figures.
Edgar Degas
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The Sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
Walter Scott -
Slow and steady wins the race.
Aesop -
Musik höhere Offenbarung ist als alle Weisheit und Philosophie.1
Ludwig van Beethoven -
In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.
Marie Windsor -
Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.
Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs -
I was in a movie called 'Before & After' with Meryl Streep. I was edited out of the movie, but no one told me. I think I was 18 or 19 years old. I sat across from her and asked her every question about acting. I completely embarrassed myself.
Chris Messina
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I've been compared to Jude Law my whole career.
JJ Feild -
I had never been out covering a story, but boy, was that fun.
Ed Bradley -
A newcomer needs to be careful as to what kind of role they choose. If you choose something different, you will end up getting typecast. That's why I chose to play a character my age, to keep my options open for the future.
Rakul Preet Singh -
I think we're so advanced when it comes to watching narrative material. I mean, it's all we do is consume content all day long. So when a character walks onscreen, you immediately start making connections for that character: Is that a good guy? Is that a bad guy?
Jeff Nichols -
Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.
Damian Hopley -
Character drives the story, and the story drives the book. I don't think about where the action should go, or how much there should be, until it's required by the characters. When I find myself adding conflict just because I'm afraid that the reader might get bored, I know I've taken a wrong turn somewhere.
Nick Petrie