Per Petterson Quotes

I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all the books I had read, a kind of bubble, in which I lived.

Per Petterson

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LifeMy LifeKindBubbleMiserable

Shostakovich was one of the great symphonists of all time, and maybe the last great symphonist.

Andris Nelsons

GreatTimeLastMaybe

You know, funny can be universal.

Maz Jobrani

FunnyYouKnowUniversal

Don't forget there are two sides to performing. Finding the truth, but you also have to be transparent enough for the audience to see it. How many times have you seen a performance and thought: 'Well, it seems to be meaning a great deal to you but it ain't coming across to me?' It is to be shared.

John Hurt

TruthGreatMePerformanceThought

Not only do the Americans not defend our films, they buy them up just for remakes. It is shameful to kneel at their feet.

Jean-Paul Belmondo

FeetDefendUpBuyOnlyJust

In the Soviet Union it was illegal to take a photograph of a train station. Look what happened to them. They tried to classify everything.

Tom Clancy

LookTrainEverythingPhotograph

I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.

Rob Zombie

HurtGoSayTrueWhyUnderstand

Stand up for what you know is right.

Ronald Isley

Stand UpStandYouKnowRightUp

If you're chained to a computer all day, you're not using up much energy, even if you drag yourself to the gym a couple of days a week. And to make matters worse for me, I've had a secondary career right along with my romance writing - cookbook author, under my real name, Ruth Glick.

Ruth Glick

DayYourselfMeWritingEnergyName

In all of my press junkets for 'Spy Kids,' I was saying that my two favorite actors are Johnny Depp and Steve Carell. And I ended up getting to work with both of them.

Mason Cook

WorkSayingTwoSpyUpKids

The New York theater community didn't like being invaded by reality stars - they still don't - but I got in there and auditioned just like everybody else. They hired me for 'Hairspray' to help sell tickets for a few weeks, but I ended up being there much longer than originally planned and started to carve a niche for myself.

Diana DeGarmo

StarsCommunityMyselfNew YorkMe

What's subcultural now is literally just a line of thinking, which is trying to be eyes wide open, in my view. It's no longer attached to a specific demographic or specifically downtrodden groups of people; it's much more free-floating, and you don't know where you're going to find it.

Anohni

EyesPeopleThinkingViewYouFind

'The Human Condition' is me exploring some ideas and thoughts that I have that don't fit one sound. I'm giving emotions a sound - it's a fusion of genres. There are four EPs in 'The Human Condition'; each title is a different emotion.

Wynter Gordon

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