Jim Petro quotes

Jim Petro quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“When you're talking about death, you can't afford to make even one mistake.”
-- Jim Petro

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“Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.”
“This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.”
“When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.”
“This is new for me. I'm learning how to have a realtionship with someone other than Ashton. I made a horrible mistake. It was like a relapse. But you," I reached up and tucked the tear dampened hair that had worked its way loose behind her ear. "You touch a place inside of me that Ashton never did. I feel things with you I never felt for her. I loved her for a very long time. I can't help the fact I still want to be there if she needs me. Next time there is a choice to make it will be you I choose first. I can promise you that.”
“Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.”
“A lot of people get flipped out if you're quiet. They say stuff like, What are you thinking? And if they don't start interrogating you, they start talking, going on and on about stuff that's totally irrelevant, and the silence gets so big and loud that it's scary.”

Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “Jack”, p.179, Granta Books
“Tomer: â€œWhat's this?â€ Cabinet: â€œWt's ths?â€ Wedge: â€œCabinet.â€ Tomer: â€œI know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.â€ Cabinet: â€œ...ts tlkngâ€ Janson: â€œOh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.â€ Tycho: â€œHe bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.â€ Hobbie: â€œNever bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.”
“When I'm in the process of making a movie I'm not thinking about the finished result, and whether people have to see it once or more than once, and what the reaction to it will be. I just make it, and then I live with the consequences, some of which may not be as pleasant as I'd like! I know one thing, however. Many viewers may come out of the theater not satisfied, but they won't be able to forget the movie. I know they'll be talking about it during their next dinner. I want them to be a little restless about my movies, and keep trying to find something in them.”

Source : "With Borrowed Eyes: An Interview with Abbas Kiarostami". Interview with David Sterritt, www.filmcomment.com. July/August 2000.
“My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.”
“In all religions, we make a choice about what we emphasize, and I choose to come down on the side of a loving God.”

Source : Bernice King (1999). “Hard Questions, Heart Answers”, p.45, Harmony

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