Brenda Peterson Quotes

It had been this way since my beginning, born on a forest lookout station in the High Sierras, surrounded by millions of acres of wilderness and many more animals than humans. Since infancy, the first faces I imprinted, the first faces I ever really loved, were animal.

Brenda Peterson

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• Humans
• Forest
• Wilderness

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• The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Most
  • Miserable
  • Hardest

• And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Reality
  • Acting
  • Difficult

• It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.

  

  Adam Grant
  • True
  • Moment
  • Leader

• The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • You
  • Care
  • Safe

• I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Different
  • Heart

• Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Sad
  • Angry

• Here once, through an alley Titanic,Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul - Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Titanic

• Live, for I love you!

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Live

• I cannot pretend to throw the least light on such abstruse problems. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • Light
  • Beginning

• I was an early adopter of the 'Hunger Games.' I read them before they were best sellers - I was on the pre-order wait list for 'Mockingjay' on Amazon.

  

  Elizabeth Banks

• The Golden State has lost its luster. We've got to change our tax system and how we fund government. We're going to have to make it easier to create jobs in California, incentivize manufacturing, really put more in the way of investment in our public school system and our institutions of higher learning if we're going to stay the Golden State.

  

  Antonio Villaraigosa
  • School
  • Lost
  • Learning

• Let's call a spade a spade: when people look at me, they say, 'Oh, she's the androgynous one.' I'll tell you what type of character I would never be offered out there: The femme fatale. Or the white-trash, heterosexual hillbilly.

  

  Katherine Moennig
  • People
  • She
  • Character

• Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • Life
  • World
  • Relationship

• A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Real

• On a piece of prose, you have to work at least six hours a day. I don't know how you can do that and teach and raise a kid and paint the house.

  

  Mary Karr
  • Work
  • House

• Whenever I have any beauty doubts, I always look up the Internet for solutions and remedies!

  

  Krystle D'Souza
  • Up

• Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.

  

  Mark Haddon
  • Good
  • Children
  • Book

• Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?

  

  Ian Fleming
  • Nature
  • Animal
  • Smoking

• There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.

  

  David Foreman
  • World
  • Humans
  • Limits

• It's core to my beliefs now: Sometimes in being given a challenge, you're actually being given a real opportunity, and a lot of that is how you handle it. Do you feel sorry for yourself or do you think, All right! I'll see what I can make out of this? I've had that over and over. If I hang out in the disappointment, I'll just be disappointed all the time.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • Time
  • Real
  • Opportunity

• His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.

  

  William Golding
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Taken

• It had been this way since my beginning, born on a forest lookout station in the High Sierras, surrounded by millions of acres of wilderness and many more animals than humans. Since infancy, the first faces I imprinted, the first faces I ever really loved, were animal.

  

  Brenda Peterson
  • Animal
  • Humans
  • Forest