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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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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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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One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'
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Nothing in my life has necessarily been easy, but eventually I see where it's gotten me to, and I say, 'Okay, it's been worth it.'
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If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.
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You grow and evolve and as you do that, your art hopefully reflects that change and that growth.
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It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.
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Good laughs melt out of memory pretty quickly.
