Kim Petras Quotes
A lot of writing depends on being comfortable around the people you work with. I want it to feel like I'm working with friends.
Quotes to Explore
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I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
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Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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I think we always view people who make us feel uncomfortable and appear to intrude on our middle-class cozy space, we view them with, if not hostility, at least suspicion, discomfort, embarrassment.
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I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.
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Throughout the day, my phone will variously chirp, burp and growl – it's like living with a velociraptor. The last time I went to try to shut it off, the thing bit me.
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Violence against women and girls touches every corner of the globe and is one of the world's most pervasive human rights violations.
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Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.
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Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.
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Silence is the virtue of fools.
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Your voice is your tool and represents you. It's very important to have a good voice where you can be understood.
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When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.
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I believe on the issue of immigration, you have to deal with it sensibly.
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What is most important to me is that my narrator's voice is believable, and that, though it is clearly an absolute fiction, it has the emotional resonance of memoir.
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How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?
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I'm not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can't afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.
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The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.
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A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.
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I think of film when I paint. Even the luminosity that I always keep working for is really about film. But my idea is not to paint paintings that will decorate somebody's house.
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I don't write genre stuff in any form. I'm not interested in it. I always try to do the opposite of that.
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Perceived self-efficacy also shapes causal thinking. In seeking solutions to difficult problems, those who perceived themselves as highly efficacious are inclined to attribute their failures to insufficient effort, whereas those of comparable skills but lower perceived self-efficacy ascribe their failures to deficient ability.
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A lot of writing depends on being comfortable around the people you work with. I want it to feel like I'm working with friends.
