Petrushka Quotes

#1. It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.

Arthur Rubinstein

#2. For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

John Frusciante

#3. A wonderful pastor I know once told me, "Perfectionism is the highest order of self-abuse." So now I try to remind myself that if I engage in perfectionism, I am abusing myself. Period.

Ashley Judd

#4. If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.

Padgett Powell

#5. One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.

Jeff Raikes

#6. When I was about five, I could do a vaguely decent American accent - straight through kind of decent - and 'Hercules' needed some kids. I definitely wasn't a good actor.

Rose McIver

#7. Killing animals to make a fashion statement = a sickening + cold-blooded vanity.

Jess C. Scott

#8. The Pilgrim of Eternity, whose fame Over his living head like heaven is bent, An early but enduring monument, Came, veiling all the lightnings of his song In sorrow.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#9. Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.

Hank Ballard

#10. There are no second acts in American lives.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#11. With 'The A-Team,' it was like, 'Alright, I'm going to do a big popcorn movie and see how that feels.'

Joe Carnahan