Alexandra Petri Quotes
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.
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When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Strike the right balance between your outfit and makeup. Make a statement with one, not both.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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When Elvis was performing, you just tried to figure out a way to get there. I think he set all the records and anyone that has ever had the good fortune to see him, you know what it's like to try to get in to see Elvis. It was impossible, practically.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and it's got nothing to do with having my name on it. I absolutely rely on it.
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To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
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'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.
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As long as I'm writing stuff and people are reading it, I'll be happy.
