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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As I pushed through to the podium, I could hear people murmuring under their breath: 'There he is... Goddam Biden.... Kill the sonofabitch.' And these were my voters- working-class Democrats.
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
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Successful men don't date up. They are intimidated by wealthy women unless they are blue bloods. Successful men want to always take care of their women, and that means financially.
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I find fight scenes actually more interesting, in a way, than chase scenes because you're watching your character go through this problem-solving process and fight the antagonist mano-a-mano. It's more powerful, more emotional.
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It strikes me every time I do an interview that I don't really sit around thinking about my goals and my life and my career. I do what I love doing and I get a lot of feedback. I'm free as a bird, you know? If I do something good, it's, 'Wow, that was brilliant,' and if I do something bad, it just goes away.
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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.
