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 people in the Upper Midwest were the same kind of people I grew up around in Idaho.
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Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which exist between reality and surreality. The mere fact of photographic transposition means a total invention: the capture of a secret reality.
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory.
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The woman over 50 must be very frank with herself.
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True love is selfless. It is prepared to sacrifice.
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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.
