Mary Beth Patterson (Beth Ditto) Quotes
I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.
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I think my numbers speak for themselves.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
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I don't like allegories.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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I just don't see where I could possibly fit in directing a feature.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times.
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I've had people ask me in interviews what it's like to have money, but that's not how it is. I have a middle-class life. I have a room in London but not a house, nor a BMW.
