Alistair Petrie quote: "If you watch the scroll at the very start of 'A New Hope,' you'll see plenty of references to the story we tell in 'Rogue One.' And I play a rebel General."

I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a uniqu...
DANIEL PETRIE

Glory: I look around at this world you're so eager to be a part of and all I see is six billion luna...
DOUGLAS PETRIE

Unlike any other form of writing, the stories of episodic television require the blended imagination...
DANIEL PETRIE

I'm sure that at some point there's going to be talk about Rick being a lame duck. But there's nothi...
GEOFF PETRIE

We've heard stories of people breaking down from the strain, of men and women working from nine in t...
DANIEL PETRIE

Not only do they have to attain the high creative level of individual writers, they have to do it we...
DANIEL PETRIE

It's time for Fox and the other major broadcasting companies to step out in the light of day and end...
DANIEL PETRIE

What the top tier earns is the engine that pulls everyone else along.
DANIEL PETRIE

I've got the most sophisticated lighting package in the whole building. All the lights are computeri...
MICHAEL PETRIE

They studio were flabbergasted when they discovered how interested everybody was in 'those old p...
DANIEL PETRIE

The second Cocoon questions that and deals much more directly with the value of living in the real w...
DANIEL PETRIE

Kevin is only in his second year, and Francisco's a rookie, but if we're going to get more athletic,...
GEOFF PETRIE

We don't have any rights of any kind. It's unlikely that we would do it anyway at this point with th...
GEOFF PETRIE

It's unlikely that we would keep a 14th or 15th guy that we would pay tax on,
GEOFF PETRIE

Not in my mind.
GEOFF PETRIE

That's really tough on them, but (Oklahoma City) is probably the best selection that was there for t...
GEOFF PETRIE

We wanted to bring a fourth point guard in, and it looks like he'll be with us.
GEOFF PETRIE

He was probably the most popular player in the NBA other than Michael Jordan,
GEOFF PETRIE

I had a feeling about directing Cocoon II: The Return. At first I wasn't too interested because ...
DANIEL PETRIE

There has been a change in attitude, though.
DANIEL PETRIE

Yes, the experience of all stages of life are valuable, not just of youth.
DANIEL PETRIE

I've never known what it felt like (to win a regional), but it's awesome.
JENNY PETRIE

It hit me when we got out there what we were trying to do. It hit me, and I never got through the me...
JENNY PETRIE

It hit me when I got out there what we were trying to do. Everything kind of hit me at once, and I n...
JENNY PETRIE

These humiliations are the essence of the game.
ALISTAIR COOKE

It's an acting job - acting natural.
ALISTAIR COOKE

These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked ...
ALISTAIR COOKE

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
ALISTAIR COOKE

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean bac...
ALISTAIR COOKE

People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
ALISTAIR COOKE

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper.
ALISTAIR COOKE

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mo...
ALISTAIR COOKE

We, ironically known as the civilizados - in practically everything that matters they're a damned si...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN

In Tbilisi in 1990, I recall watching zealous Georgians smash statues of Lenin and Stalin. A few day...
ALISTAIR HORNE

I was bribed into starting swimming with the promise of sweets and by being told that you can win me...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 2...
ALISTAIR HORNE

It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of ...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their ow...
ALISTAIR COOKE

All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running som...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratu...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a...
ALISTAIR COOKE

In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any ge...
ALISTAIR COOKE

We need a new system, I think, (for) both the public and ministers themselves, who come under pretty...
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

does not imply any erosion of the rights of Orangemen in Portadown.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

We see the need to break the cycle in 1998.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

to wreck all the gains of the last few months.
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

We cannot ignore the importance of perceptions in Northern Ireland, and there is now a clear emergin...
ALISTAIR GRAHAM

It was a very bad result for us, let's make no bones about it. This was a safe seat, we should not h...
ALISTAIR DARLING

The claimants' allegation of wrongdoing has been completely dismissed,
ALISTAIR DARLING

Unless we look at that, we will have huge problems - absolute gridlock - in 20 or 30 years' time,
ALISTAIR DARLING

Local and regional pilots are essential if we are to explore and understand the possibilities of roa...
ALISTAIR DARLING

We are looking forward to working with these authorities to develop practical solutions to congestio...
ALISTAIR DARLING

Today we are sending out a very clear message to those who drive without insurance - there is now no...
ALISTAIR DARLING

already more severe than the rest of the country.
ALISTAIR DARLING

We have not put the inflation increase through for the last couple of years. Indeed, since 1999 fuel...
ALISTAIR DARLING

We can't be in the business of carting fresh air around the country.
ALISTAIR DARLING

Snowfall in January is hardly unexpected,
ALISTAIR DARLING

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
ALISTAIR COOKE

I'm not a combative person. My long experience has taught me to resolve conflict by raising the iss...
ALISTAIR GRANT

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
ALISTAIR COOKE

Washington
ALISTAIR COOKE

Curiosity...endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful w...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Curiosity is free-wheeling intelligence.
ALISTAIR COOKE

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to ...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheer...
ALISTAIR COOKE

Following 9/11, intelligence indicated numerous links between al-Qa'eda and Algeria. It began to...
ALISTAIR HORNE

When you train seven days a week, you need good scenery to inspire you.
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

Though Washington had closed down for the holidays, the next day, December 26, a key message from Ha...
ALISTAIR HORNE

Even after you win the championship, the work doesn't stop; it probably only becomes more. I'...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

In the fall of 1973, Erica Jong assaulted the last surviving bastions of old-fashioned modesty with ...
ALISTAIR HORNE

Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week ...
ALISTAIR HORNE

In 1939, Fitzroy Maclean, a gangly Highland aristocrat in his early 30s, was serving as a British di...
ALISTAIR HORNE

I did my first cross country race when I was about 10 and absolutely loved it. I wasn't particul...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
ALISTAIR COOKE

Though Barbados has been independent since 1966, its capital, Bridgetown, still has elements of a th...
ALISTAIR HORNE

In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crow...
ALISTAIR HORNE

There is a widespread view among the liberal intelligentsia to the effect that Henry Kissinger, U.S....
ALISTAIR HORNE

Brock Lesnar was a big guy: he's at 280 when he fights. When fighting him, you can have a bit of...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

I have stated many times that one of my goals was to become K-1 champion. K-1 is, in our country Hol...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace i...
ALISTAIR COOKE

A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it
ALISTAIR COOKE

History never repeats, but there are the obvious precedents that pessimists can reach for: Sarajevo,...
ALISTAIR HORNE

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
ALISTAIR MACLEAN

Without Kissinger's work in the Middle East, with Sadat especially, I doubt if the Camp David Ag...
ALISTAIR HORNE

I wanted to join the Army, but my eyesight wasn't good, so I quit school and my job to just focu...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1989, Reagan and Thatcher displayed Churchillian magnanimity towa...
ALISTAIR HORNE

Whenever we race in London, the noise of the fans gives me goosebumps.
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

As a fighter, you need to constantly improve. So that's what we've been doing: constantly im...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

Mikheil Saakashvili can claim that 80 per cent of Georgians wanted to join NATO; on the other hand, ...
ALISTAIR HORNE

I'm just cruising, doing me, having a good time and focusing on getting better.
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious ref...
ALISTAIR HORNE

The Canadian is not an American - at least, not entirely, not yet
ALISTAIR HORNE

Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.
ALISTAIR SINCLAIR

There is definitely both a higher willingness to prescribe drugs and acceptance by families to have ...
ALISTAIR SINCLAIR

Green coffee stores up to three years. It does not deteriorate and can be kept until the price is ri...
ALISTAIR MACNAB

The number of people already employed in the industry is in the thousands, and it's at all levels, i...
ALISTAIR MACNAB

Houston is now on the coffee map where it wasn't before.
ALISTAIR MACNAB

We're talking about a lot of homes.
ALISTAIR JACKSON

Done right, green homes don't have to cost any more to build.
ALISTAIR JACKSON

They wondered, if you cannot have everybody holding hands in perfect harmony like a 1970s Coca-Cola ...
ALISTAIR HUDSON

Time does not, and shall never, equal experience.
ALISTAIR HARDING

It was the first ten impressions that were the most powerful. The same story was pretty much true fo...
ALISTAIR GOODMAN

A triumph in which Kissinger could claim to have played some little part, in the presidential electi...
ALISTAIR HORNE

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that ...
ALISTAIR BEGG

If I lose to Frank Mir, I have to find something else to do.
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

Triathlon is a sport where the legacy is obvious. Anyone can do it; there are loads you can do. It i...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to ...
ALISTAIR HORNE

When you ride fast and then rest for a bit, it causes a spike in your heart rate and helps your body...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter an...
ALISTAIR COOKE

The establishment includes the museums, which were seen as dinosaurs at the center of the big battle...
ALISTAIR HUDSON

All impressions are certainly not created equal. We tell our clients to beware of remnant inventory....
ALISTAIR GOODMAN

These are hot button issues.
ALISTAIR JACKSON

This level of competition is extremely high. Everybody is trained. Everybody has a game plan. Everyb...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

I have a nutritionist and a doctor. Everything is checked. Thoroughly. Everything I take is checked ...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

A good church is a Bible-centered church. Nothing is as important as this--not a large congregation,...
ALISTAIR BEGG

I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.
ALISTAIR COOKE

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and it...
ALISTAIR COOKE

It's an acting job-acting natural.
ALISTAIR COOKE

Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this sid...
ALISTAIR COOKE

We are quite different: I'm relaxed, and I get ready for races really late, whereas Jonny is rea...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

For every quote, there is one that challenges it.
R. ALISTAIR

At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be pub...
ALISTAIR BEGG

The Peacemaker Colt has now been in production, without change in design, for a century. Buy one to-...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN

I wanted to be an endurance athlete from a young age. I remember being in a careers class at school ...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

My first event was in Nottingham, aged 11, and the prize was a bike. I thought, 'Wow.' I had...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. ...
ALISTAIR MCHARG

I'm an all-around fighter. I do everything. I've got wrestling; I've got Brazilian jiu-j...
ALISTAIR OVEREEM

Aung San Suu Kyi's late husband, Michael Aris, was a good friend of mine at St Antony's, Oxf...
ALISTAIR HORNE

I greatly blame Congress, spurred on by its personal hatred of Nixon, for passing legislation in Jun...
ALISTAIR HORNE

Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the pr...
ALISTAIR URQUHART

The global economy is spluttering back into life. The Tories would have left it to choke to death.
ALISTAIR DARLING

The best thing about having your brother in the same sport as you means you can go out and train tog...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many ...
ALISTAIR DARLING

We're proud Yorkshiremen: we grew up fell running, and we still do it whenever we can. I did my ...
ALISTAIR BROWNLEE

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and th...
ALISTAIR COOKE

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, ...
ALISTAIR MACLEAN

Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.
ALISTAIR BEGG

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.
ALISTAIR MACLEOD

Waking up, for many people, is apparently a positive experience. There are twittering birds and the ...
AMY PETRIE SHAW

If you watch the scroll at the very start of 'A New Hope,' you'll see plenty of references to the story we tell in 'Rogue One.' And I play a rebel General.

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