Julie Anne Peters quote: "Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life."

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.
JULIE ANNE PETERS

The best thing about coming out is, it's totally liberating. You feel like you've made this incredib...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

...the man of my dreams is a girl.
JULIE ANNE PETERS

... Then he did a strange thing. He lifted my hand to his lips and kissed my palm."
"I died. T...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

During those times, they'd stand there watching me watching them. I'd pray, please. Put a pillow to ...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

Miracles don't happen. You make them happen. They're not wishes or dreams or candles on a cake. They...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

Confiança. Tudo isso tinha a ver com confiança. Você não tem nada, a menos que possa confiar na ...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

I knew if I gave into it, I’d have to surrender myself completely. I’d lose all control. Everyth...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

She smiled. “You did. And my gaydar never lies. Although later, I thought you might be bi.” No, ...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

She was in me, in my blood, invading every cell in my body. She was the one I wanted. She was the on...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

Cece was all I had. Without her, I’d be totally alone in the world.
Oh, God. I probed her ge...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

Holl?” Seth turned over. “Where you going?”
“Home. Sorry. Go back to sleep.” I pulle...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

Expectations. They ruled my life. -Ch.14
JULIE ANNE PETERS

Do you love him?”
I jumped out of my skin. She was standing right beside me. “Who?”
JULIE ANNE PETERS

My pulse quickened. Was I? Gay, I mean? If so, what was I doing with Seth? Maybe I was bi. That woul...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

I hated lying, though. That’s probably why I was so bad at it.
JULIE ANNE PETERS

You’re running out of tomorrows.”
Running out of tomorrows, I repeated to myself in my roo...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

I wanted to be with her, like all the time. Eliminate the obstacles, the people and things in our li...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

Sometimes I'd catch myself looking at my reflection in windows and wonder who I was. Where I was goi...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

They got it wrong when they called it “the closet." This was a prison. Solitary confinement. I was...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

But hell would have to freeze over before I ever wore a dress.
JULIE ANNE PETERS

It was all about hate. There should be laws. We're there laws? Can you legislate against hatred?
JULIE ANNE PETERS

Yet, when we talked, when we were together, she seemed so familiar. Seemed to know who I was, where ...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

And it’s more. It’s about getting past that question of whats
wrong with me, to knowing the...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

Mom's eyes blazed. "Are you sleeping with her?"

Oh, god. Did we have to do this here? Now...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

Everyone's a liar. Everyone I've ever known.
JULIE ANNE PETERS

When you discover the joy of reading, your mind opens to a world of wondrous discoveries and infinit...
JULIE ANNE PETERS

Life is too short for anger, resentment, hostility and "should have." It is too short to put off doi...
JULIE-ANNE

We all deserve to be treated with nothing but respect. In order to command respect from others, we m...
JULIE-ANNE

True friends are to people what lighthouses are to ships. No matter how stormy it gets, they stay pu...
JULIE-ANNE

In 2008, I was the woman who thought she had the world by the tail: the "perfect life."

...
JULIE-ANNE

Which was why he reflexively turned when a flash of iridescence caught his eye. His first thought wa...
JULIE ANNE LONG

But love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn't like Corinthians. The "suffereth long" and "is...
JULIE ANNE LONG

Jules could have sworn there was a devilish glint in the shopkeepers eye.

'I find today ...
JULIE ANNE LONG

There are things the artist intends, and things the viewer sees, and what the viewer sees isn't alwa...
JULIE ANNE LONG

Love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn’t like Corinthians. The “suffereth long” and �...
JULIE ANNE LONG

I don't know,' he said irritably. 'Is it meant to improve you?'

She swiveled toward him, ...
JULIE ANNE LONG

Her courage seemed to collapse around her ankles like an old pair of elastic undies
JULIE ANNE GRASSO

What are your pleasures and pursuits, Lord Moncrieffe?" Miss Eversea asked too brightly, when the si...
JULIE ANNE LONG

She charmed and sparkled and said witty things, but she knew very well she was being charming and sp...
JULIE ANNE LONG

Of course you're sorry. The first words out of the mouths of men who are caught doing something they...
JULIE ANNE LONG

He leaned in for a sniff. 'Smells like a horse's arse! I've got Ian!' -'No sniffing allowed! We neve...
JULIE ANNE LONG

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within th...
RALPH PETERS

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've ser...
RALPH PETERS

The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
RALPH PETERS

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those ar...
RALPH PETERS

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
RALPH PETERS

Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.
RALPH PETERS

Social peace requires reciprocity.
RALPH PETERS

When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'...
RALPH PETERS

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest probl...
RALPH PETERS

The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hu...
RALPH PETERS

In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
RALPH PETERS

I'm a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in '96. He was on a record with Sha...
RUSSELL PETERS

Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything i...
RUSSELL PETERS

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experien...
BERNADETTE PETERS

Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the l...
ELLIS PETERS

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails...
TOM PETERS

The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is...
TOM PETERS

Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about i...
TOM PETERS

I hate Bollywood. The movies are all garbage, just terrible. It's my opinion; obviously, there a...
RUSSELL PETERS

If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwa...
RUSSELL PETERS

I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I ...
EVAN PETERS

It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I...
EVAN PETERS

Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as h...
ELLIS PETERS

Eavesdropping, Mother?' Ramses inquired.
'It is a shameful habit, but cursed useful,' I said, q...
ELIZABETH PETERS

No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
ELIZABETH PETERS

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity
TOM PETERS

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because th...
CHARLES PETERS

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
BERNADETTE PETERS

You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They love...
BERNADETTE PETERS

On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to b...
RUSSELL PETERS

Celebrate what you want to see more of.
TOM PETERS

As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that ...
TOM PETERS

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in ...
TOM PETERS

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us ...
TOM PETERS

If you really want to kill morale, have layoffs every two months for the next two years.
TOM PETERS

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and sym...
TOM PETERS

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going t...
TOM PETERS

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people...
TOM PETERS

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to t...
TOM PETERS

Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bol...
TOM PETERS

Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct.
TOM PETERS

'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, drea...
TOM PETERS

Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.
TOM PETERS

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
TOM PETERS

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
TOM PETERS

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
TOM PETERS

Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.
TOM PETERS

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it w...
TOM PETERS

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and e...
TOM PETERS

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
TOM PETERS

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
TOM PETERS

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processe...
TOM PETERS

'In Search of Excellence' was an afterthought, the runt of the McKinsey consulting litter, a...
TOM PETERS

Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get t...
BERNADETTE PETERS

I think that the more and more people connect to them, then we'll realize what an invaluable spirit ...
BERNADETTE PETERS

Into the Woods.
BERNADETTE PETERS

Sondheim Etc. Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall (The Rest of It),
BERNADETTE PETERS

It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life,
BERNADETTE PETERS

Mary and I are delighted that Broadway Barks continues to be such a popular event, and we are deeply...
BERNADETTE PETERS

Annie Get Your Gun.
BERNADETTE PETERS

Knowing it was my solo debut at Carnegie Hall and looking out at the audience and knowing that we we...
BERNADETTE PETERS

When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs,...
BERNADETTE PETERS

That wasn't something I was very proud of. It was just stupid. I got caught up in the moment.
ANDREW PETERS

We could play the same team 25 times. It doesn't matter. We have to play our best hockey. We have to...
ANDREW PETERS

He knows the way the game is played, and he knows he has to fight to keep a career. He's obviously v...
ANDREW PETERS

I might ask him how his game went, but other than that we don't talk much about hockey. I ask him fo...
ANDREW PETERS

My first season at Buffalo, Geoff was at Rochester and I would come down from Buffalo to visit him a...
ANDREW PETERS

It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And kn...
BERNADETTE PETERS

It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I re...
MIKE PETERS

In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woma...
BERNADETTE PETERS

I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent femal...
ELIZABETH PETERS

I actually put peanut butter on my bagel. I really like peanut butter and I like to ruin the bagel. ...
EVAN PETERS

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
ELLIS PETERS

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmabl...
TOM PETERS

Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
TOM PETERS

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
TOM PETERS

Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women g...
TOM PETERS

We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
RALPH PETERS

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
BERNADETTE PETERS

I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic al...
EVAN PETERS

I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism bac...
RUSSELL PETERS

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
ELLIS PETERS

Selim, you will speak with your kin and your friends in Gurneh; perhaps some of them will respond to...
ELIZABETH PETERS

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sen...
ELLIS PETERS

I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay '...
MIKE PETERS

We spent two weeks that I call two weeks of tears--my veil of tears.
BROCK PETERS

[Peters paid tribute to Peck after Peck's death in 2003.] In art there is compassion, in compassion ...
BROCK PETERS

I worked over the years in many, many productions, but no-one ever again called me to welcome me abo...
BROCK PETERS

[In one courtroom scene, in which Robinson is asked by his lawyer whether he has committed the rape,...
BROCK PETERS

I have been here a long time, and I have seen this cycle happen before. I'll wait awhile and see if ...
BROCK PETERS

In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and l...
BROCK PETERS

[He initially clashed with the autocratic director.] One day he chewed me out in front of a lot of p...
BROCK PETERS

[Acclaimed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest U.S. films of the last century,...
BROCK PETERS

I guess creepy comes natural to me - I hate to say that.
EVAN PETERS

Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I&...
RUSSELL PETERS

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
TOM PETERS

I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is.
RUSSELL PETERS

We are also moving forward with our plans to lease eight branch sites in Hillsborough, Pasco, Polk, ...
BRIAN PETERS

While these new locations will temporarily decrease short-term profitability, they should provide so...
BRIAN PETERS

Over the past 12 months, we have expanded our loan portfolio and anticipate that because of the high...
BRIAN PETERS

One of the primary purposes of this rapid branch expansion has been to take advantage of opportuniti...
BRIAN PETERS

I admire the guys who can do it with as little technology as possible, two turntables and a micropho...
BRIAN PETERS

We've had some very intoxicated people not know where their car was or if they drove a car that nigh...
BRIAN PETERS

World Title Fight Night
BRIAN PETERS

This will be Bernard's first twelve round fight and Wilders will represent a new kind of challenge. ...
BRIAN PETERS

If it zips through, we'll be in good shape, but if it slows down, additional rain can only aggravate...
BRIAN PETERS

Although Wilders seemed to be a bigger threat on paper, I don't think we can take Hughes for granted...
BRIAN PETERS

This tournament should help them out.
BOB PETERS

He was around here for a couple of weeks. Everything seemed normal. He just tended to himself. What ...
BOB PETERS

He was around here for a couple of weeks. Everything seemed normal. He just tended to himself. ... W...
BOB PETERS

We estimate the economic impact at $3 million.
BOB PETERS

These items carry a full 12 month warranty, the same as our new equipment. To re-use equipment succe...
BOB PETERS

We also clean up the cabinets and if necessary repaint them, before holding them in stores awaiting ...
BOB PETERS

A fire engine from the 1940s wouldn't have the same pump power. The tank wouldn't hold as much water...
BILL PETERS

[Spokane enters the week with a 1-1 record after two weeks of the regular season. After dropping the...
BILL PETERS

Jimmy was solid. He made some big saves at key times and earned a very good win, ... That is exactal...
BILL PETERS

The pre-season has been long and we've had a lot of practices but the guys are energetic and excited...
BILL PETERS

The system we have in place worked just the way it should. It was a little inconvenient.
CAROL PETERS

It's similar to what would happen in your home if you didn't have circuit breakers in place. You'd b...
CAROL PETERS

This is a prescribed action that we do to support the electric grid. Certain areas will be experienc...
CAROL PETERS

What it does is unite the arts groups. A lot of times there are different groups in Gilroy and they'...
CAROL PETERS

We really want to protect the public from a potential hazard especially with situation of grass fire...
CAROL PETERS

There will certainly be new courses in that area. It may also impact the existing interdisciplinary ...
CATHERINE PETERS

Our hope with this initiative is to establish some cohesion to the existing activities that will all...
CATHERINE PETERS

We have existing strengths in engineering and life sciences that we would like to bring together.
CATHERINE PETERS

We are at the stage now where we're discussing with those individuals.
CATHERINE PETERS

The intent is to hire an individual who can both foster connections with the existing research in en...
CATHERINE PETERS

The San Diego region in many ways is defined by our relationship with the ocean. It's our front ...
SCOTT PETERS

Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable ...
SCOTT PETERS

You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
BERNADETTE PETERS

Underpromise; overdeliver.
TOM PETERS

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
TOM PETERS

Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
MARGARET PETERS

Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the grat...
ELLIS PETERS

You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
BERNADETTE PETERS

We added 'recreation' to the name to reflect our complete line of outdoor accessories and a line of ...
WAYNE PETERS

Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
TOM PETERS

Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.
SCOTT PETERS

You need to look at what can be done in Fort Macleod and district that would give you some profile, ...
LEONA PETERS

George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-m...
BERNADETTE PETERS

God made me, God made you..but then again God made gunpowder and kerosene too.
JORDAN PETERS

Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor...
CLARKE PETERS

[In one courtroom scene, in which Robinson is asked by his lawyer whether he has committed the rape,...
BROCK PETERS

We're definitely not old because we only have two seniors, but we also have three juniors who starte...
NATALIE PETERS

"I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a se...
ELLIS PETERS

We believe that there is a growing awareness of the dangers of secondhand smoke and that smoking in ...
CATHY PETERS

I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do!
JOHN PETERS

I want to personally express my gratitude to the citizens of Waller County for the support and court...
CHERYL PETERS

Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fig...
RUSSELL PETERS

Good managers have a bias for action.
TOM PETERS

I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's ac...
RUSSELL PETERS

We?re just plain against it. It?s a David and Goliath situation. We?re just the little people who li...
DAN PETERS

I love 'Some Enchanted Evening', and 'If I Loved You'. And as I sing them more and m...
BERNADETTE PETERS

I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has alway...
TOM PETERS

Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

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Me? I had no dreams. No longings. Dreams only set you up for disappointment. Plus, you had to have a life to have dreams of a better life.

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