Stephanie Perkins Quotes
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.
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To be a very, very minor, eighth-tier celebrity, you realize, 'Hey, celebrities are just like us.'
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Those who want to perpetuate apartheid also seek to divert your attention to the false issue of communism, to send the entire American public on a witch hunt.
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The universe is permeated with the odor of turpentine!
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When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.
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Things can only go uphill from here. They can't go any lower than that.
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Go back to what's good, what's certain, what's always there. You woke up today. Just start walking.
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Stress is never a given. There are people who get divorced amicably. There are people who pack up and move with no emotional toll. There is no stressor 'out there' in the world. We experience stress - or we don't - depending on what we believe.
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I like to call someone a raving c**t every now and then, when it’s appropriate, for effect (...) ‘You cocksucker.’ I love that kind of language.
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An educated person is not necessarily the one who has the knowledge, but the one who knows where to get it when needed.
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If one's reputation is a possession, then of all my possessions, my reputation means most to me.
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We are all part of a vast sea of love. One indivisible mind.
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I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
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He was right. You are an angel. But even an angel has to put her halo down from time to time.
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I'm more afraid of falling than I am of flying high. I'm not as scared of dying as I am of growing old. Every battle has its glory and its consequence.
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It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.
