Ann Petry Quotes
“From the time she was born, she had been hemmed into an ever-narrowing space, until now she was very nearly walled in and the wall had been built up brick by brick by eager white hands.”
Quotes to Explore
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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I love all sorts of music. I'm really into Damian Rice and Amos Lee.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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The politician's promises of yesterday are the taxes of today.
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One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
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Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.
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You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.
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Well I have you know, several CD's out; one of my best friends is Sully Erna from Godsmack - he is Godsmack, and we're going to be working on an album together.
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If the body is stiff that is understandable. But if the mind is also stiff then you can’t get anywhere. The mind has to become flexible.
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“From the time she was born, she had been hemmed into an ever-narrowing space, until now she was very nearly walled in and the wall had been built up brick by brick by eager white hands.”
