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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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.
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You get into these executive offices, and people say, 'Oh, we have this project. Wait a minute, guys, we need diversity - let's choose a black actor for this; let's choose a Hispanic actor for this,' instead of saying, 'That's not diverse, that's just normal. That's what makes up America.'
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Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelligence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.
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I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me to be doing opposing sides simultaneously. I would argue that even though my character on 'Hawaii Five-0' originated on the wrong side of the law, I'd say he's worked his way over to the good side.
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Good laughs melt out of memory pretty quickly.
