Alexandra Petri
Related When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes par... DAVID FERRY CRAIG GROESCHEL ZIGGY MARLEY It's different being a director. I suppose, especially if it's a story you've written an... PADDY CONSIDINE This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS ALESSIA CARA MARILYN VOS SAVANT Teaching reading is rocket science, ... You need somebody in each of these schools who knows how to ... MARK LEWIS BILL SIENKIEWICZ CRAIG GROESCHEL I. M. PEI OLIVIA COLMAN You may not want to hear that or think of it as writing, but I’m telling you that the moving of in... KENNETH GOLDSMITH MARIAH CAREY Sometimes you do feel a script that glows in your hand the moment you start reading it. By page four... GEOFFREY RUSH WALTER DEAN MYERS 'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start... RAINE MAIDA I think that when people join clubs as simple as a sorority or a fraternity, a football team, a base... THEO ROSSI I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a directi... TAMSIN GREIG EDWARD HIRSCH You're sent scripts, and for some, as soon as you start reading them, you feel an instant connec... OPHELIA LOVIBOND MARINA ABROMOVIC FRANK PERDUE WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I learned that as much as you think when you're walking down that aisle that this forever, somet... BETTY WRIGHT NAIMA ADEDAPO JOHN MCENROE I came back from my ACL injury and won MVP. So, what's a groin? What's an adductor? That'... ADRIAN PETERSON BRITTANY SNOW I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to ... TREVOR RABIN I think that Valentine's Day is only as good as you want it to be. You know, I don't think i... PRINCE ROYCE Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU You want to work with good people. When you're working with good people, it frees you up. There&... JAMES BADGE DALE HOWARD SHORE I think every writer doubts themselves, every day. You procrastinate because you're afraid. You&... GEOFF JOHNS KHALED HOSSEINI J. C. WATTS MAUREEN DOWD When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're re... NINA JACOBSON HEATH LEDGER To be a director, you have to think you're the best. Ever since I went to film school, I imagine... JONATHAN LEVINE When you're a kid, you see your parents reading the newspaper and you're like, 'God, why... FRED DURST CARA DELEVINGNE LAKE BELL GREG BEHRENDT CARLY RAE JEPSEN People want to be happy, so they don't want to feel as though they're mired in this world of... SHERYL WUDUNN I think it's one of those funny things - sometimes you're not really friends with somebody u... MARK VALLEY JOAN RIVERS GOLDIE HAWN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ANG LEE JOHN HICKENLOOPER AMY TAN CASEY KASEM DON ROFF KARAN JOHAR I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it. UMBERTO ECO JOHN MADDEN LESTER HOLT Sometimes I get really down on myself for not having the exact career I want, but it's ok as lon... EMILY MEADE WILLIAM SAFIRE WILLIAM SAFIRE SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Sometimes you work with somebody you've never heard of because you just feel like working. BENMONT TENCH With the royal family, you don't want to see them as people because it takes the sheen off. They... CLAIRE FOY Whitney and I have fun reading the newspaper sometimes. You'd be amazed at the places they say I... BOBBY BROWN CARINE ROITFELD CAROL BURNETT They see us interacting with people, they see us doing serious interviews, they see us having fun, a... KATIE COURIC MARILYN MANSON I think that it's hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as lon... TARAN KILLAM Playing football, I'm getting chills just thinking about it. That first knock of the game, you a... BRYCE HARPER It's just so much better than being at school sometimes where you're just so busy with work and some... JOSHUA FREEMAN The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I... ADORA SVITAK 'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it. ELIZABETH OLSEN I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with id... DANA SCHUTZ I myself started out quite young; when you're working, professionally, even if you are in your t... AIDAN GILLEN I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It... BALTASAR KORMAKUR As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep pe... FEDE ALVAREZ MARY OLIVER PATRICK ROTHFUSS So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to ... MAXWELL MATT DILLON I've been very lucky, from the beginning. I've found that as long as you're fundamentall... ANDREW MASON CASSANDRA CLARE JOAN JETT The thing about reading is that if you are hooked, you're not going to stop just because one ser... EOIN COLFER ROZONDA THOMAS I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is ve... DANE COOK ASSEGID HABTEWOLD PETER JENNINGS DAVID BRINKLEY I want to be able to say, 'you think you're odd, I'm even odder and I made it - you can ... LAURIEANN GIBSON Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to b... BAM MARGERA PATRICK EWING
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What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act? 
I'm a big reader. My kids love reading, and I think it's important, not just for development... 
As long as each song makes somebody feel something, I think that's the point of it all. I don... 
Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own side. 
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To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be ... 
I don't think you can cry if the script is rubbish. I have to feel it; it's as simple as tha... 
You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine... 
I don't want to approach reading from the viewpoint of that it's a pleasant adjunct to your ... 
The terms of poetry - some simple, some complicated, some ancient, some new - should bring us closer... 
Of course I dream to have this perfect man who does not want to change me. And I'm so not marria... 
If you do this, you're going to have some heartaches from it. You're going to have people ye... 
I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it. 
No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audien... 
You hit a wall at some stage when you don't want it so bad, but you don't know when that'... 
I'm a huge believer in you don't really need anybody to make you feel validated or make you ... 
When you see 'Lord of the Rings,' you want to feel like you've been dropped into it and ... 
Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing ... 
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Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, bu... 
The reason that you dance and sing is to make the audience feel like they're dancing and singing... 
When you're coming from a place of living just to work, it's never as good as you want it to... 
I think, in general, when you're doing comedy, you're having a good time regardless of the c... 
I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not... 
Reading serves as a good escape when you're in the middle of doing crazy things. 
Show business is - you're there by somebody's fluke. And as long as somebody likes you, and ... 
I am compelled to continuously see the bright side. It is in my DNA. My kids look at me and say: ... 
Under the greenwood tree,
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I like the storytelling and reading the letters, the long-distance dedications. Anytime in radio tha... 
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If you play the video game, you become more interested and you want to know more about it. You want ... 
At the end of the day, I'm reading the news. I'm not digging ditches. I'm not fighting f... 
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re... 
If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re... 
You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."
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I want to write something
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I'm ambitious. I do think you have a tendency to be less happy sometimes when you're a seeke... 
Read everything! Don't just read things that are in your comfort zone or things that you think y... 
Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want... 
In any relationship, even when it came to my relationship with Usher, when it was time to make a mov... 
Don't allow people to define you based on reading the abstract of your story without even reading ch... 
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Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you. 
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No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pa... 
That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often we... 
A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so... 
I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school h... 
When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals&... 
Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that sam... 
I think of making a movie in such a romantic way. 
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The cars we drive say a lot about us. 
Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars. 
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Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'diffe... 
My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching m... 
All forms of self expression are linked. 
If someone doesn't spell 'you' out in an e-mail,