Alexandra Petri Quotes
I know from personal experience that it is extremely difficult to read while you work out, especially on a Stairmaster.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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It's been amazing how this crazy career has been created. I feel that it's been given to me. I wouldn't be anywhere without Victoria's Secret.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
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I sometimes feel nervous because I give stupid answers to certain pointless questions. It happens in Turkish as much as in English. I speak bad Turkish and utter stupid sentences.
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I gravitate towards strong messages and things that make an impact.
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I was a painter, then a novelist, then a journalist, then a screenwriter, and now I'm a director, and it feels all part of the same continuum. One led to the other, and it just feels like the natural confluence of all the ways of storytelling that I've been doing for almost 30 years.
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What I like most about Bolano is his courage.
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A person's worth is quite independent of their usefulness to society.
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I know from personal experience that it is extremely difficult to read while you work out, especially on a Stairmaster.
