Stephanie Perkins Quotes
Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.
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Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
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When I read the script and saw the jazz music setting, and when I read the name of the filmmaker was Damien Chazelle, I immediately got this mental image of Antoine Fuqua.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.
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Just learning to think in another language allows you to see your own culture in a better viewpoint.
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I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
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In 1913, the noted German actor and director Paul Wegener was making a film in Prague when he heard the legend of Rabbi Loew, who created a golem to protect the inhabitants of the Prague ghetto from persecution.
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I live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.
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There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.
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When I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.
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Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.
