Esther Peterson (Esther Eggertsen Peterson) Quotes
I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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Oh, I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' I had that well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. I don't mind the way I'm ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that's fine.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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There's millions of gay people in the world. In 2011, you've got to hide that you're gay? Like, you know what I'm saying? Like, be real.
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When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.
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It's just not my nature to go around idolizing people.
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I take the theater seriously in that I loathe it, I'm bored by it.
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We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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The whole Baja California peninsula is an energetic place, and it's incredibly alive.
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He who commands an Apollo flight will not command a second one.
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Everybody thinks about Bo Derek as being this extravagant looking lady but she is also a wonderful actress.
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I don't know if it's changing already with 'Joanne,' but my intention is to bring people together that don't know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That's what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.
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I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.
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Don't you ever, EVER talk that way about television.
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I love how the soccer guys just fall when they get kicked and go baby crying.They try to explain to the referee like he's their mother: "Wah! Did you see what he did?" Then they get back to playing soccer again.
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I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.
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We have made good on our shared resolve to deliver what I firmly believe will be a fair and lasting resolution of the Indian school legacy.
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I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'
