Anders Petersen Quotes

It (taking photographs) is all about longing without longing-no pictures at all.

Anders Petersen

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• I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Myself

• I hate the word sexy.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Hate
  • Sexy
  • Word

• The only one that's appeared in my dreams is the one from Aliens. H.R. Giger's version of that Necronom was almost like a tic. It's reptilian. That creature is like a baby and tic combined. It's very frightening. It scared the hell out of me, it really did.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Baby
  • Dreams
  • Version

• When I used to teach writing, what I would tell my playwriting students is that while you're writing your plays, you're also writing the playwright. You're developing yourself as a persona, as a public persona. It's going to be partly exposed through the writing itself and partly created by all the paraphernalia that attaches itself to writing. But you aren't simply an invisible being or your own private being at work. You're kind of a public figure, as well.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Kind

• God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Love
  • Made

• You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Mind
  • Fighting
  • Concentration

• Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied.

  

  Plato
  • Duty
  • Triumph
  • Ranks

• I'm from east LA. I don't see colour.

  

  will.i.am
  • Colour
  • East

• Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities.

  

  William Odom
  • Countries
  • Admiration
  • Realities

• I kept as still as I could. Nothing happened. I did not expect anything to happen. I was something that lay under the sun and felt it, like the pumpkins, and I did not want to be anything more. I was entirely happy. Perhaps we feel like that when we die and become a part of something entire, whether it is sun and air, or goodness and knowledge. At any rate, that is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great. When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Success
  • Earth
  • Sleep

• Nature has no outline. Imagination has.

  

  William Blake
  • Nature
  • Imagination
  • Outline

• You can't get too attached to any one shampoo. And conditioner, also.

  

  Owen Wilson
  • Attached
  • Shampoo
  • Conditioner

• Mr. Thornton felt that in this influx no one was speaking to Margaret, and was restless under this apparent neglect. But he never went near her himself; he did not look at her. Only, he knew what she was doing — or not doing — better than anyone else in the room. Margaret was so unconscious of herself, and so much amused by watching other people, that she never thought whether she was left unnoticed or not.

  

  Elizabeth Gaskell
  • People
  • Looks
  • Rooms

• Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Mind
  • Happiness
  • Circumstances

• I think it's a really admirable thing to be very sure of your own moral code and not waver from that. If you're sure of your moral code, your moral code is personal. Something that I admire about my TV character is being unapologetic and knowing who she is. That was empowering to play.

  

  Riley Keough
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Empowering

• Why don't people believe us when we say we're simply in love?

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Believe
  • Love

• The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torch bearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them.

  

  J. Christopher Herold
  • War
  • Revolution
  • Napoleon

• My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Lying

• It (taking photographs) is all about longing without longing-no pictures at all.

  

  Anders Petersen
  • Longing
  • Photographs