T. J. Perkins Quotes
I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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I'm a lot more introspective than one would believe.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'
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We're seeing a crazy appetite for people to acquire and invest in British businesses.
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A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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My dresses are for women of all different shapes and sizes. Actually, the one I tried on yesterday was the one Jennifer wore. And who'd have thought I'd be the same size as Jennifer Lopez!
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Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous. I just wanted to have mastered the art of sketch comedy.
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Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out there, even on my team. It's really cool: you'll see so many different things.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.
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I can tell when something's real, or when something's put together. I can just feel it.
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I had a complicated life until I was 25. I was born in Bristol and was brought up by my mum and my stepfather in Edinburgh. He introduced me to books.
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Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.
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I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's finally begun, but it was completely tied up with mortality and danger and politics.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
