Stephanie Perkins Quotes
You should show encouragement whenever you can. People try harder when they know that someone cares about them.
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I feel fine as long I'm not running around.
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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I find the business world hard.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
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Same-sex marriage is not the future.
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I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
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I've evolved, but I'm the same dude, I'm just in a different place. We all change, we all grow. I shouldn't be in the same place that I was 30 years ago; I should be more intelligent, you know.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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You should show encouragement whenever you can. People try harder when they know that someone cares about them.
