Petra Collins Quotes

I think being collaborative is definitely more natural for people who are minorities in any sense - so people who aren't, like, white male artists - because we don't have the privilege to create art and work alone, usually.

Petra Collins

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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A book reaches a different crowd of people. There are 50 different stories of very different individuals participating in their communities either locally or nationally in meaningful ways.

Joan Blades

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I think my mindset and my approach is to hit the ball hard, whether it be first pitch or work the count.

Andrew Benintendi

WorkThinkMindsetFirstHardCount

I've learned several lessons over the years. First, never take yourself too seriously, or work is boring. Next, people make the difference. You can have great technology, but if it's not complemented by great people, it won't go anywhere. Finally, customers buy from people they like.

John W. Thompson

WorkTechnologyGreatYourselfYou

Neil Mahoney was definitely the visionary in taking 'Freak Dance' from stage to screen. He made it more cinematic. He brought the choreography, all the ways to shoot that. I was more the director of actors. I was in front of the camera directing, and he was behind the camera directing.

Matt Besser

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No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

Julia Jones

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Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

Joyce Meyer

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The way it works in our family is, it's the family business. Much like in the Mafia. Every child is given the opportunity to act at a young age and to learn what it's like to be in the business.

Jordan Bridges

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I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making.

Jonathan Ive

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I have worried about getting pigeon-holed, but now I think I've done enough weird, offbeat stuff not to be. And I also know that I do things for the right reasons: I've made my money, so I don't have to say yes to anything.

Christopher Meloni

MoneyThinkWeirdEnoughKnowDone

The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory.

Ali Smith

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Before refrigeration, most food was heavily salted. Many of these salted foods have persisted, such as sauerkraut, pickles, cured anchovies, cheese, salted butter, ham, corned beef, sausage, and bacon. We still eat these things because we like them. But they are no longer the mainstay of our diet.

Mark Kurlansky

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I don't get cast as the guy who steps off a yacht in a white linen suit with a martini.

Martin Freeman

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