Nick Petrie Quotes

I don't outline or plan ahead when I write a novel. The more I know about what's going to happen, the less interesting it is to me; and if it's less interesting for me, it will be that way for the reader.

Nick Petrie

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It's hard in America as a writer of color, an actor of color, not to get caught up in race and culture. But you're also supposed to be able to write characters and scenes in a way where it's just a matter of fact, a component.

John Cho

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I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

Michael Ealy

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In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces or simply abandoned. In India alone, millions of government-funded latrines have become goat-sheds. Some had been built near kitchens, a taboo in Indian households.

Rose George

AloneWorldEnoughIndiaBecome

My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.

Lucinda Williams

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When I went off to college in 1997, I didn't go back and watch 'Conan.' I was out partying and dating women.

Jason Momoa

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There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.

Jasper Johns

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I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

Bruno Mars

WantUpSingMusicianPerform

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Winston Churchill

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I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.

Susana Martinez

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It's clear that the small business tax credit created under the Affordable Care - while well-intentioned policy - can be improved to better serve the needs of small businesses.

Suzan DelBene

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The goal of the revolution is to achieve the people's rights, but during the course of the revolution, we must stress military power - and the two are mutually contradictory.

Sun Yat-sen

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Family tends to be one of the recurring themes in my fiction.

Sharon Shinn

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