Nick Petrie Quotes
It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.
Quotes to Explore
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
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In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.
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I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
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Speak of change, and the world is in alarm. And yet where do we not see change?
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In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
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I have learned a lot from jazz. I compare good acting to jazz music. The more you study and prepare as an actor, the more equipped you are to live in the moment. Just like the gifted musicians in my dad's quartet, it takes a courageous actor to be free.
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Historians will look back in stupor at 20th and 21st century Americans who believed the magnificent republic they inherited would be enriched by bringing in scores of millions from the failed states of the Third World.
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AS A KID I WAS PROMISED an America - An America I believed in - and I insist on living - and dying - in that America, even I have to create it myself.
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Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.
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I love Rihanna's style. It's a good mix of streetwear and show wear, and I love her music, too. She's an incredible singer and performer.
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To make music that means something, you kind of have to drop the cool. You have to be prepared and willing to be uncool.
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.
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If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
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The majority of people know me as a dancer, but they don't also know that I'm a director, a songwriter and a producer.
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Every reader of your ad is interested, else he would not be a reader. You are dealing with someone willing to listen. Then do your level best. That reader, if you lose him now, May never again be a reader.
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Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
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As a rule, [populism] is done for the sake of political expediency by those who do not care about the consequences, who do not think even one step ahead, who do not want to think and do not intend to honour their commitments.
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It's interesting what pops out of an author's subconscious when he's not thinking about it.
