Tom Petty Quotes
Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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What's so crazy is when you give interviews to reporters that don't really care too much for you, basically what they're going to do is write what they want to write and discredit you. They're going to write and say what they want to say, no matter what you tell them.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.
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The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester people in the world.
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People often ask me when there's going to be a Mrs. Zach Braff. It's a confusing question sometimes because many people don't realize that my mother is named Mrs. Zach Braff.
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For my first big Fashion Week event, the factory wouldn't give me my clothes because I didn't have the $25,000 it cost to make them.
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The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.
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My mother has stories of leaving me in the bath as small kid, like a 3-year-old, and there being mirrors on the side, and her going to get a towel and coming back in, and me making faces at myself, like, 'Now I'm happy. Now I'm sad.'
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Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.
