Nick Petrie Quotes
I find that I do my best work at the beginning of the day, but I'm rarely in a writing mood when I sit down. I'm usually somewhat sleep-deprived, and I always have a long list of other responsibilities calling my name.
Quotes to Explore
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Funny is an attitude.
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All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try.
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When you're fighting with a stunt person, your intent is to miss.
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
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I remember as a kid not ever wanting to have friends around to my house because it was, for want of a better description, disheveled.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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My forte is awkwardness.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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What I do is I do my job.
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I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.
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I want to work with Cherry Jones.
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The Republican Party is bringing out here onto the floor of Congress an all-out assault on the protection of the rights of people who work in the fields of our country, in the factories of our country, in the offices of our country.
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I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.
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I find that I do my best work at the beginning of the day, but I'm rarely in a writing mood when I sit down. I'm usually somewhat sleep-deprived, and I always have a long list of other responsibilities calling my name.
