Alexandra Petri Quotes

President Obama deserves our unalloyed praise for hastening Osama bin Laden's demise.

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• But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened. I'm a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that's the way I feel about people who play on sessions.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Music
  • Voice

• One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• Americans are not saving enough for retirement.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Enough
  • Retirement
  • Saving

• The State of Israel was not established by anxiety but, rather, through pride.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Pride
  • Anxiety
  • Israel

• Judea and Samaria can be a place of refuge for the nation.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Place
  • Nation
  • Refuge

• The thing about being black and having a different accent, in the beginning, is that it makes you foreign.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • Different
  • Black
  • You

• I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Dad
  • Myself
  • New York

• To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Home
  • Guest
  • New Years

• The first time I saw 'Private Practice,' I was hooked. The camera work is captivating, the acting is the-best-of-the-best amazing, and each storyline is so interesting and different.

  

  Rachel G. Fox
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• Know that the tattoos are all significant. They're all extremely insignificant. I can't break each one down, but it's 20 years. The first one was 21 years of age from a football teammate.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Age
  • Know
  • Football

• Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • World
  • Long
  • Writing

• I was 7 years old when I began composing. I began composing, improvising at the piano, the usual story.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Story
  • Old
  • Piano

• Details are the only thing that separates one movie from another.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • Thing
  • Details

• My style kind of differs - sometimes I want to be a little dressed down, a little tomboy, sometimes I want to be dressed up and very chic and look proper. But I don't ever believe in overdoing it for day-to-day style.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Kind

• I had taken a course in Ethics. I read a thick textbook, heard the class discussions and came out of it saying I hadn't learned a thing I didn't know before about morals and what is right or wrong in human conduct.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Taken
  • Saying
  • Ethics

• I like every girl. Every kind of girl that there is, I like.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Girl
  • Kind
  • Like

• Although it takes place in Gotham City and fundamentally it is a movie about Batman, Chris wanted us to play everything for truth. The actors he chose for this movie are into realism.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Truth
  • Movie
  • City

• I learned that poets aren’t God, but if there is a God...or anything approaching a God...he’s a poet. And a failed one at that.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • God

• Instruct me how to thank thee! Oh, to shoot My soul's full meaning into future years, That they should lend it utterance, and salute Love that endures, from life that disappears!

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Future

• I told the students that whatever they did in class was for the wastebasket.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Students
  • Class
  • Whatever

• Flying, for some reason, has never been my favorite thing, but after taking some aviation classes and reading about it and learning about it... They've been doing this for over a hundred years, they've been to the moon and back; they kind of have a good system going here.

  

  Michael Mosley
  • Thing
  • Flying
  • Favorite

• At home, I have a wife, fortunately, and my children are all grown, and I have many grandchildren. I spend weekends with my grandchildren; I adore them.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Children
  • Home
  • Wife

• I hated science in high school. Technology? Engineering? Math? Why would I ever need this? Little did I realize that music was also about science, technology, engineering and mathematics, all rolled into one.

  

  Mickey Hart
  • Technology
  • Realizing
  • Engineering

• President Obama deserves our unalloyed praise for hastening Osama bin Laden's demise.

  

  Alexandra Petri