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.Alexandra Petri
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
Yoko Ono -
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
W. Edwards Deming -
Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
Yehuda Berg -
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?'
Flume -
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.
Barbara Kruger -
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
Irene Rosenfeld
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
Orlando Bloom -
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.
Vanessa Kerry -
I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
Tara Strong -
I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
Gavin Bryars -
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.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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.
Halima Aden
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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.
Imelda May -
I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
Larry Brown -
If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to ride, and is lightweight.
Patrick Dempsey -
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.
Sami Gayle -
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.
Xavier Dolan
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It is written in an all but totally unintelligible style, and this is constued as prima-facie evidence of profundity.
Peter Medawar -
I believe in people.
Javier Bardem -
When I'm not a politician, I'll be dead.
Barry Goldwater -
It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.
Garrett Hedlund -
Civil movements and riots are as old as human civilization. Long before Twitter was created, mobilization of the discontented was mouth-to-mouth, or even by 'smoke signals' to gather the uprising against established political power.
Eduardo Paes -
Books are wonderful. They are like people, except they mind less when you put them down and wander off to eat something.
Alexandra Petri