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Nick Petrie Quotes

In crime fiction, I cut my teeth on early Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, John D. MacDonald, and Alan Furst. I always loved the writing of Hemingway and Faulkner. Cormac McCarthy's 'Border Trilogy' has been a huge influence; I think I read those novels four times.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

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Writing Influence Border Think Loved

In most shows, there's usually a hero or a protagonist, and even if there are multiple heroes or protagonists, most shows try and make it so you really always know who's the good guy and who's the bad guy.

Good Hero You Bad Know Try

Early on, I played a Chinese delivery person, and even that, which was very innocuous, felt like I was somehow betraying myself. I felt very self-conscious on set doing that role, with a crew that was almost entirely white.

Myself Doing Early White Person

I have bougainvillea and a magnolia tree outside my window. Not that anything will ever beat the view I had from my desk window in my little farmhouse in Nebraska. Just a dirt road stretching out as far as you could see, with prairie grass on either side.

Tree Window Road View You Grass

As I've said before, free money scams are a problem.

Money Free Problem Said Before

If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror.

Mirror You Look Want See Up

Movies and I just equally avoided each other at certain times in my life, you know?

Life My Life You Know Movies Just

Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction.

Direction Year Partying Zero Been

I've tested for I-don't-know-how-many pilots, and I didn't get any of them. I would always try to go off the top and make it as spontaneous as possible, but acting in sitcoms is such a skill set, and I didn't have it. I wish I did back when I was younger.

Wish Back Acting Go Skill Possible

For at the same time many people seem eager to extend the circle of our moral consideration to animals, in our factory farms and laboratories we are inflicting more suffering on more animals than at any time in history.

History Time People Suffering Circle

Sometimes, I think, in order to get to something that we really want or we really love or something that needs to be realized, that we're tested.

Love Think Sometimes Want Something

It's very painful to have something that's not true written about you.

You True Painful Something Very

I actually think in some ways that it might be more challenging to be bipolar because it's so mercurial - it's so ever-changing. You can't get any traction. You can't build on a system. Whereas, somebody who has Asperger's, which is certainly a much more forgiving expression of autism, can create models for coping and build on them over time.

Time Think You Create Build More

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