Alexandra Petri Quotes
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Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.
Tara Strong -
I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough young people coming out about their concerns and opinions.
Eden Sher -
I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
K. A. Applegate -
Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
Sam Graves -
Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety of victims; whoever comes along will most likely do.
Pat Brown -
The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
Irving Babbitt
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Every villain needs her story told.
Abbi Glines -
What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
Natalie Massenet -
Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
Haile Selassie -
I'm there on all the social networking sites, as it plays an important role.
Yami Gautam -
A lot of what I think I do as a director is try to give everything over to the actor. So I disappear.
Ira Sachs -
The community of masses of human beings has produced an order of life in regulated channels which connects individuals in a technically functioning organisation, but not inwardly from the historicity of their souls.
Karl Jaspers
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The crowd's a really powerful force on the Internet, and people finally understand how to harness that.
Sam Altman -
Every role is a new form of surrender.
Laura Dern -
When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, first grade read it to us. I love that book.
Madison Pettis -
When I decided to work with Krishna Vamsi, people around me were apprehensive about my decision. They warned me that I shouldn't work with an unsuccessful director.
Ram Charan -
The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
Pam Grier -
My plan was to be able to make a living as an actor.
Adam Driver
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Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
Zhang Ziyi -
The body is an inviolable limit. And you have to really hurt it before you know that.
Peter Coyote -
No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
An Wang -
When people make a horror movie, it's a few months. This is years of horror, that these guys have to play out. It just hit me and I was like, "Wow, that's heavy."
Scott M. Gimple -
In many contexts, simplicity is not an aesthetic frill.
Elliott Sober -
Journalists run many risks. It comes with the profession.
Alexandra Petri