Andrew Peterson Quotes
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Now that virtually every career is an option for ambitious girls, it can no longer be considered regressive or reactionary to reintroduce discussion of marriage and motherhood to primary education. We certainly do not want to return to the simplistic duality of home economics classes for girls and wood shop for boys.
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I'm encouraging other people, whether they're professionals or not, to use their creativity to express themselves, to get a conversation going, to get the party started, really.
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I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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History should belong to all of us, and it needs to include people from different cultural backgrounds. Otherwise, it risks becoming irrelevant to children, who could then become disenchanted with education.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I think there is a real thing going on where writers are feeling more liberated to write with a big canvas because of a demonstrable, continued appetite for long-form storytelling.
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When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.
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To me, the flag represents the greatest ideals of the United States of America, not the worst, but different people look at different things and have different feelings about it. That's what freedom of expression is all about.
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In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
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If you live with love... You will love living.
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I'm not a fan of Twitter.
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Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another's feet.
