Esther Peterson (Esther Eggertsen Peterson) Quotes
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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I think you're certainly going to see much closer racing. But, no, these are very good teams in the IRL. I just can't stress how competitive they all are and how close it's going to be.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.
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There are just so many funny kids and teenagers. They're just not aware of how funny they are.
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Anybody can have this body if you do enough sit-ups and you just make a decision that 'Every day, I'm going to work out.' There are some days that I just don't feel like doing it, and I don't. But more often than not I get up and I get on the treadmill that I want to shoot and just do it. The first 20 minutes are the hardest.
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A pen is certainly an excellent instrument to fix a man's attention and to inflame his ambition.
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I definitely felt that I was put at a very high place to be able to be a part of such a wonderful franchise in cinema history, so I was definitely very driven at doing a great job and having my body look the way it should and just being a part of the creative process.
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I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
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Life is really hard for some people.
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Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
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I am happy being what I am.
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Google Glass is the wearable computer that responds to voice commands and displays information on a visual display.
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My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers.
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I totally wouldn't mind being able to wave my hand head to toe and have, like, a whole new outfit.
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I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya Angelou, or I'll just read some Mary Oliver - this is a book that was given to me for Christmas. No particular genre. And I read in French, and I read in German, and I read in English. I love to see how other people use language.
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When it rains, I have good energy; I'm in a good mood.
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I am actually a very unspeaking person. I'm not really good in social situations. People expect me to be more outgoing. I don't know why. They think I have this kind of assurance.
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I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do.
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MIDI made a natural transition to the PC. The MIDI messages that make up a musical composition can be saved as MIDI files, which are collections of MIDI messages with timing information.
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What a squalid and irresponsible little profession it is. Nothing prepares you for how bad Fleet Street really is until it craps on you from a great height.
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Where you have been is not nearly as important as where you are and where you're going.
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Women's place is where they can do the most good.
