Alexandra Petri Quotes
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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Chris and Toby are far too sane to be upset any more.
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There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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Archery requires very sensitive muscles.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Teaching kids to become something other than what they were born to be is probably impossible; teaching them to behave in ways that seem unnatural to them at the start is actually not that hard.
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There's an art to making something look good when, on a hanger, it's just a black coat.
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The Internet freedom issue we need to focus on is network neutrality.
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That's the whole thing: You only roast the ones you love. That's why I never make fun of the French.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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Good laughs melt out of memory pretty quickly.
