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 wanted to be a vet, a nurse, a chef - I mean, anything but the music industry. But once I hit high school, the bug really bit me. You can't deny where you come from and what's in your genes, and music definitely was. I haven't looked back since.
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The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
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You discover over time that music can be overwhelming. Unless the musicians involved understand this they can lose audiences. Spontaneity and improvisation are salient features but I also strive to make music that is peaceful. I want to make music that aids world peace in the same way that the people who shaped my development did.
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If you don't know what you want, you'll probably get what somebody else wants.
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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.
