Alexandra Petri Quotes
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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The strips about the military do seem to provoke moving and thoughtful responses. It's nice when the strip resonates, but more importantly, I need to know when I'm getting something wrong. The last thing I want to do is contribute to the suffering that wounded warriors already endure.
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May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
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Everything you say and do is having an impact on others.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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The acting came about because of a girl. I was 19 and met a girl who wanted to go to the premiere drama school in Australia, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts, where Mel Gibson, Cate Blanchett and many others went. She had an audition, and I went with her for moral support - to cheer her on. I did an audition my way, and it kept going.
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Recording a song for a film doesn't take much time; it's hardly an hour's job, but concerts are constant, and so is travelling, so I've to take time out to work on my albums because I'm passionate about creating my own music. When you love something dearly, you set your priorities accordingly.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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In the United States, oil demand is projected to grow by 340,000 barrels per day this year and gasoline demand is projected to grow nearly two percent, averaging 9.3 million barrels per day for the summer.
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I was so excited to work with Ridley Scott. Who wouldn't be?
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Humans struggle to remain attuned to one another - they want to turn away because of fear, or ambition, or boredom, or some lure of the ego. It's difficult. It requires radical vulnerability, radical risk.
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I think it's up to the parents to determine whether what they're doing is consigning their child to difficulty. It's not as though they were crippling their children after they were born.
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I love it when people know what they like and what looks good on them.
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I know a lot of people who read and think: "George [Saunders] is so much fun." There's no denying you're fun to read, but as a writer I think of [George Saunders] as, in fact, not a fun and freewheeling type but really an obsessive control artist.
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People talk to pass the time, share information, and entertain each other.
