Alexandra Petri Quotes
Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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Music was always part of my life - my mother says I came out singing. I wanted to be Gene Kelly - or Judy Garland.
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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.
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I'm obsessed with those old romance films. I also would love to venture into the silent film world. I think that's extremely compelling and interesting and really relies on the acting, even more so than when you have an actor speaking.
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When you're adapting, you are working on someone else's problem that they have already solved. The work has been fine-tuned and read countless times, and you're just arriving at the end and taking what you want, so of course it is the regal way to moviemaking. Plays are just the ideal scripts - the structure is there and waiting for you.
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What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.
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The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.
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Interestingly, when I look at pictures of me when I was five or six years old, I think I look pretty stylish.
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We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God.
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Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they're transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.
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Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.
