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Petra Collins Quotes

My favorite place to go is Zabriskie Point in Death Valley. If you see it at sunrise and sunset, it's like you're on Mars.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 21, 1992

Topics

Sunset Death Sunrise You Place Go

In the early stages of writing children's books, an experienced lady editor said that while girls read boys' books, the converse was not true, and I may have been influenced by that.

John Christopher

Children Writing Lady Early True

If people have split views about your work, I think it's flattering. I'd rather have them feel something about it than dismiss it.

Stephen Sondheim

Work People Think Feel Something

Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.

Progress Destination Nothing Anything

If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.

Good People Now Mean Hunger Used

Our region's economy was built upon their entrepreneurial spirit, and our economy still depends on the continued success of the enterprises they have worked so hard to create.

Success Create Spirit Hard Economy

Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in America for a number of years and so have accumulated observations, found things interesting, been moved to tell stories about them.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Interesting America Place Tell Lived

I disagree with Apple on many things - such as its exclusive use of proprietary software and arbitrary restrictions on users seeking to copy, share, edit, and create software on their devices. However, I strongly feel that defending its users' and customers' right to strong encryption in court is incredibly important.

Chelsea Manning

Strong Feel Apple Copy Create Right

We live in a world where there are dangerous people, there are bad people.

Live People World Bad People Bad

I don't treat my family any differently because they're on television. I've always had a problem grasping fame. I don't think I understand fame, and I don't think I ever will. I think that anybody who thinks that they understand fame, they're doing it for the wrong reasons.

Family Treat Think Problem Doing

If you don't have a mountain, build one and then climb it. And after you climb it, build another one; otherwise you start to flatline in your life.

Sylvester Stallone

Life Mountain Climb Start You Build

In the very few interviews I've made, it doesn't matter how long we've talked to each other, the headline is still just about my paycheck.

Long Matter Paycheck Just Interviews

I was way behind physically in high school. They had weight bars that were about forty-five pounds. I couldn't handle them. Couldn't even put the weights on. It was embarrassing. So I always figured out ways to avoid lifting when I was young.

School High School Young Way High

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