Tom Petty Quotes
Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.
Quotes to Explore
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Dormer by name, Dormer by nature: I love to sleep.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
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For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
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Luckily, I don't have to be anybody but Yolanda, because people don't expect me to be anything other than who I am. For an artist, it's a great place to be.
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Jeremy Corbyn confuses the public because he looks like a librarian and enjoys baking bread.
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You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.
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Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.
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Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual.
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Heresy is a word which, when it is used without passion, signifies a private opinion. So the different sects of the old philosophers, Academians, Peripatetics, Epicureans, Stoics, &c., were called heresies.
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You might as well enjoy the day - you never know when and how painfully it could all end.
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To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
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I have never supported white supremacism but I read this this description of me in the papers.
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How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!
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Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life.
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By lunchtime the valley was lightly coated, like a cake with confectioner's sugar...there was white fur on the antlers of the iron deer and on the melancholy boughs of the Norway spruce.
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In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
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I guess I'm a really analytical person, but when I'm writing, all that stuff goes behind a screen. Analysis and taking things apart is really important and really interesting, but it's the direct opposite of creating something, which has to do with taking things and putting them together and hoping to make something unique that's more than the sum of its parts. And you can't do that with analysis, you can only take things into smaller and smaller pieces.
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The photographic enthusiast likes to lure us into a darkened room in order to display his slides on a silver screen. Aided by the adaptability of the eye and by the borrowed light from the intense projector bulb, he can achieve those relationships in brightness that will make us dutifully admire the wonderful autumn tints he photographed on his latest trip. As soon as we look at a print of these photographs by day, the light seems to go out of them. It is one of the miracles of art that the same does not happen there.
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Way up in the nosebleeds we watched him on the screen, they'd hung between the billboards so cheaper seats could see.
