Adria Petty Quotes
I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything.
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I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
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When you're doing superhero stunts, the objective is to look as cool as humanly possible.
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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For a decade, makers of AIDS medicines had rejected the idea of lowering prices in poor countries for fear of eroding profits in rich ones. The position required a balancing act, because the companies had to deflect attacks on the global reach of their patents, which granted exclusive marketing rights for antiretroviral drugs.
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That's the trouble with trying to influence an undecided voter. First you have to find one.
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My favorite form of transportation is walking. I live in a neighborhood where you can walk to restaurants, banks, and shops.
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In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.
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We live in an image society. Speeches are not what anybody cares about; what they care about is the picture.
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If anybody is interested in listening to good modern music, I would recommend Jim Fassett, 'Symphony of the Birds.' It's really beautiful... with real birds.
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I'm a quasi-only child. With my brother and sister, I've more of a tendency to be semi-maternal. So, yes, I spent a lot of time talking to myself - I had this big dressing-up box and would just dress up as lots of characters and talk back to myself... Verging on schizophrenia, I suppose, if you analyse it carefully.
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The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
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When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.
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The first step in changing a culture, I believe, starts with the senior leadership team - and with the CEO.
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I don't know what you mean by country music. I just make music the way I know how.
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I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen.
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Worship the music, not the musicians.
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I can't stress too much how much Ry Cooder was an influence on me. Having one of the most respected musicians around like my singing really gave me the confidence to do it.
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When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
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Sometimes being with Victoria was like tiptoeing through a mine field. Put one foot wrong and everything is going to be blown sky-high. It was exciting, but often frightening. She had a terrible temper at times.
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I think musicians are perfect at knowing how to get the best out of other musicians. I can really relate to that communion.
