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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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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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Money has never been my drive. I have never seen the shortage of money in my life, so for me, I don't want to buy a silk pillow or a private jet... My drive is to achieve more than what my grandfather achieved; my drive is to make a name for myself, get rid of this 'star son' tag that has been attached to me.
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I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have.
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I do, I do!. There were songs like Ryan Adams' song 'Come Pick Me Up' that was sort of part of the writing. The Patty Griffin song 'Long Ride Home' you just try and earn with your script. Most great songs are their own movie without your help. So you just try to earn them really.
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The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.
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We have to be sure we don't pigeonhole one group as though they're not part of the human family, as though there's a different set of rules for them. That would be a big mistake.
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Nature, left to her own devices, finds it hard to produce anything that is ugly. The work of the plant breeder should always be to enhance nature, not to detract from it....we should strive to develop the rose's beauty in flower, growth and leaf.
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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.
