Petra Collins
Related AMY ADAMS I definitely suffered from stage fright. I had to work really hard to come out of my shell. When I w... BRIANNA BROWN DAX SHEPARD AASIF MANDVI Just as my body had changed at puberty, now I was developing a sense of guilt, a sense not only of h... HANIF KUREISHI KELSEA BALLERINI SOPHIE WU I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many... KIM GORDON JERRY SPINELLI CAITLYN JENNER As a kid, I thought of myself as stupid because I needed remedial help. It was not until much later ... CAROL W. GREIDER JOAN DIDION I was always the tallest girl in my class, and it made me have really bad posture because I wanted t... KATHERINE WEBB GERARD WAY I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint... CHRIS STAPLETON I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I BEN BARNES But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER DEYTH BANGER I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how ... DARYL HALL , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kid... EOIN COLFER The only time I felt I was different was when one of my friends said, 'I hate reading' and I... ADORA SVITAK FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA While I was in jail, I was so mad at myself and so frustrated about my situation and how I let mysel... BOBBY DIXON MARK BARROWCLIFFE STEPHEN KING LORETTA LYNN LOUISE PENNY CHUCK PALAHNIUK MIKE MILLS LANA DEL REY BROCK LESNAR R. A. SALVATORE I worked with some directors, and it was really collaborative, and I was sort of writing with them. ... PADDY CONSIDINE ELIZABETH WURTZEL AMY ADAMS I didn't start really making changes in my life until I was actually in my mid-20s. And all of a sud... MEG TILLY When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in col... LILY RABE JAMIE OLIVER I had a blog and was documenting my life as a college student in an art school. I had a few comments... MICHELLE PHAN DAVID ROBINSON In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these othe... EVELYN LAU BRITTANY SNOW JESSE JACKSON TOBIAS WOLFF JOYCE CAROL OATES LINDA HUNT I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa... OTTESSA MOSHFEGH I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I was bullied very badly in high school. I was a very successful kid. I sold my first company at a y... CHARLIE EBERSOL PARKER J. PALMER KATHLEEN TURNER It was really special for me because [on the night of Ripken's 2,131st game], I was in my first year... MIGUEL TEJADA VIRGINIA WILLIAMS FANNIE FLAGG DIANE KRUGER I believe in my writing. BARRY MANILOW MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Some of the feedback I got was very violent. I had two girls come to my room. I had threats of viole... LISA SMITH My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 o... DANIEL BRUHL EZEKIEL ELLIOTT STEPHEN CHBOSKY DOUG FLUTIE BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH I love people. I was born loving people. BETSY PALMER ALICE WALKER IVANKA TRUMP GAVIN HOOD MICHAEL DAVIS I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON LORNA LUFT JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead. GEORGETTE MOSBACHER BUDDY HACKETT ERIC ALLIN CORNELL CAROL LEE I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I th... CHESTER HIMES QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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We work to create a new wave of feminism that is more inclusive. I want others to feel equal. It'... PETRA COLLINS My mind is changing all the time. I can't live in a space that has a fixed aesthetic. I just nee... PETRA COLLINS I remember being 12 or 13 and reading 'Seventeen' and 'CosmoGirl.' They were all abo... PETRA COLLINS It's so rare to see a woman lose control and also gain it back. Women are always told, 'Oh, ... PETRA COLLINS Women's emotions are constantly labeled. Any slight deviation from 'pleasantness,' and w... PETRA COLLINS When I was 16, I created this online platform for female artists. I messaged women who I loved; that... PETRA COLLINS I didn't see spaces where female artists could exist and exhibit their work. So I created a plat... PETRA COLLINS The feminist movement is way bigger than the word. I don't police people on what they call thems... PETRA COLLINS My lens and my personality, it's just fluid. The art isn't just in one place. PETRA COLLINS Occasionally, I'll wear glitter or blue eye shadow. PETRA COLLINS I really wanted to feel strong, I wanted my subjects to feel strong, but I didn't know how to do... PETRA COLLINS I wish I didn't think about what my body looks like. It can be done - it's just a long proce... PETRA COLLINS I think being collaborative is definitely more natural for people who are minorities in any sense - ... PETRA COLLINS I know having a social media profile removed is a 21st century privileged problem - but it is the wa... PETRA COLLINS With social media and all the new technology, there's just more interfaces around and reminders ... PETRA COLLINS I started out taking photos of my friends on, like, disposable cameras, and I documented my younger ... PETRA COLLINS I post all the time anyway. It's part of who I am. There's me IRL. There's me URL. That&... PETRA COLLINS Because I loved dance, I always need to be physical and moving, so photography that is more tactile ... PETRA COLLINS I'm used to seeing women being degraded, slut shamed, harassed for what they look like. Even the... PETRA COLLINS My mom had been a script supervisor in Hungary, but you can't just jump into that in Canada with... PETRA COLLINS I was very depressed at a young age and felt like I didn't have agency towards that. Being '... PETRA COLLINS As a young woman, I was disturbed by the fact that there was no imagery that truly expressed the exp... PETRA COLLINS PETRA HERMANS PETRA KELLY PETRA STUNT PETRA NEMCOVA PETRA HERMANS PETRA NEMCOVA PETRA STUNT Old film-noir movies. There's something comforting about watching black-and-white movies, and he... PETRA HADEN PETRA KELLY I like things that start depressing and dark and end up romantic, and that's what I really loved... PETRA HADEN PETRA STUNT That's taking part in a war that was against international law. I don't want Germany to be a war cou... PETRA PAU PETRA HERMANS PETRA HERMANS You think you smell lime everywhere. PETRA PERRY PETRA KELLY I was delighted to find wide-plank floors under the crappy linoleum. PETRA PERRY PETRA KELLY PETRA NEMCOVA PETRA HERMANS PETRA HERMANS PETRA HERMANS PETRA HERMANS PETRA NEMCOVA PETRA NEMCOVA PETRA HERMANS PETRA HERMANS PETRA NEMCOVA PETRA NEMCOVA PETRA HERMANS PETRA HERMANS PETRA HERMANS PETRA HERMANS PETRA HERMANS We are losing our soul for this fool's gold called wealth. If we end up with just an industrialized ... PETRA BRIDGEMOHAN This is fun; it's March and we're still here playing. Everyone is tired and exhausted but we don't c... PETRA KULHANKOVA JACKIE COLLINS Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection. KIM COLLINS I have inspiration and feelings of being alive most every day I live. 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In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very differe... 
Now, where does my comedy come from, like, as a human being? Yeah, when I was a kid I was dyslexic a... 
One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things... 
I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I... 
Puberty was not kind to me. I had acne, eczema and had a stye in my eye, so it was quite hard to go ... 
I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and... 
My greatest gift in life was being dyslexic. It made me special. It made me different. If I had not ... 
Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read A... 
When I was writing it, I was remembering how hard it was to be a 16-year-old in high school. I alway... 
I was heavily into sport from 10 to 15, I was in all the teams, and it was everything to me. But I w... 
What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! 
I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... 
I was always the black sheep of the family and always told that I was dumb, and I had a low IQ and d... 
I was aware that he was laughing at me, but I told myself I didn't care what other people thought an... 
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that s... 
I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don&#... 
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-a... 
When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away... 
My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationship... 
I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what ... 
Looking at me now, it might be hard to believe that I didn't even have hair in my armpits when I... 
It got so bad that by the time I was graduated, the only reading I did was in order to get the grade... 
In a strange way, I had fallen in love with my depression. Dr. Sterling was right about that. I love... 
I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had ... 
Largely in the beginning, I did a lot of extra work because I was lighter than all the other guys. I... 
I know from my own personal experience. I was bullied in middle school and high school and went thro... 
I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me. 
And in my heart I despised the life I led in Seattle. I was sick of it and had no idea how to change... 
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I ... 
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I el... 
Like a wild animal, the soul is tough, resilient, resourceful, savvy, and self-sufficient: it knows ... 
Appearing nude on film was not easy when I was twenty-six in Body Heat; it was even harder when I wa... 
I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn't ... 
I was, am , severely dyslexic and couldn't spell, still can't spell. So I was discouraged from writi... 
It's maybe hard to believe, but as a kid I really had a lot of self-doubts. My father was very i... 
Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w... 
That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself. 
About half a mile from the tunnel, Sam stopped the car, and I climbed in back. Patrick played the ra... 
I think the only time I doubted myself was my senior year in high school. I was not offered a Divisi... 
The first time we did cavalry charge I was so breathless with excitement I nearly fell off the horse... 
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in colle... 
The way my father raised me was really informative of how I think about my role as a female and how ... 
In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns... 
I didn't think I was wasting my time. I thought I was in the right company. Those guys were so good.... 
I was born in a blender. 
I was born 'neath a clouded star. 
I was born to be funny. 
I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. 
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It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. 
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I have to be seen to be believed. 
Fortunately, there is only 
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction that if we don't do th... 
I love accessories. I'm a girl. I love shoes. I love handbags. 
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If immigration reform passes, it'll be a big victory for sanity - nobody really believes it'... 
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Emily Dickinson never developed. She remained loyal to her persona and to that same little metrical ... 
When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn&... 
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I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues. 
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I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest of my life with you. 