Alexandra Petri Quotes
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
Ingrid Betancourt -
I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
Barbara Bush -
Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
Dale Evans -
I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
Hanna Rosin -
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
Patrick Stewart -
Challenging and highlighting abusive power dynamics in our culture is my goal; replicating them is not.
Kara Walker
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
Nadia Giosia -
I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed.
Dan Futterman -
It feels like a simple human right to be able to be yourself, and yet, what trans people have to go through in order to get to there, it can be so complicated.
Eddie Redmayne -
I don't know how often I can discuss one incident in my entire life, but I'll continue to do that.
O. J. Simpson -
There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.
Fran Kranz -
You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'
Mae Whitman
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Fiction will always be my greatest love, with poetry close behind.
J. Courtney Sullivan -
I'll be judged on the body of work and not the popularity of any one decision.
Kamala Harris -
I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.
Taylor Swift -
Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.
Viktor Yushchenko -
I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
Barry White -
Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
Fiona Shaw
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I'm not running around as a continual ray of sunshine. It's just I don't believe in wasting time feeling sorry for myself. Get over it.
Aimee Mullins -
I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
Vincent Cassel -
When you are playing with a few players in the pocket, it doesn't leave me isolated. I have a bit more space to work and be higher up the pitch.
Dele Alli -
The thing is with me I look on the brighter side of everything.There's no point being pessimistic or being worried about too many things because frankly life's too short.
Prince William -
Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
Maggie Siff -
Bad things happen, and you can only be so prepared.
Alexandra Petri