Mary Beth Patterson (Beth Ditto) Quotes

I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.

Mary Beth Patterson

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• I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Popular

• One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated effort, serene attitude, taciturn air, courteous disposition, thoroughly polite bearing, gritted teeth with a piercing look - each of these reveals dignity. Such outward appearance, in short, comes from constant attentiveness and seriousness.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Character
  • Air
  • Effort

• In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • End
  • Distance
  • Encouragement

• I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.

  

  Gautam Singhania
  • Technology
  • Challenge
  • Serious

• Speaking in broken Telugu is one thing, and dubbing is another.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Broken
  • Speaking
  • One Thing

• Small paintings can be fantastic. But you can't often get a narrative out of a small painting. In any case, museums are huge places, and you want to take up some space.

  

  Gary Hume
  • Up
  • Small
  • Space

• What's so great about DreamWorks is that it's run by filmmakers who believe that if it's not broke, don't fix it.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Fix

• When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Hero

• I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.

  

  Nas
  • Always
  • Matter
  • Rap

• I would say as a journalist, I would envision travelling to other countries that have had to reckon with their past and see how they've done it: what worked, what didn't work, finding characters that would tell the story of how that process was done.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Work
  • Done
  • Past

• We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a negative one.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Positive

• To me, a purely good individual or purely bad individual, that's a comic book – that's a fantasy – and I don't do fantasy.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Good
  • Book
  • Bad

• NETWORK - Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Nature

• I don't think I'm very much like anyone else, really. I'm sure there are aspects of other actors that I share, but I don't see anybody else and go, 'Damn, they stole my thing.' I'm me, and I like that there are people who have an appreciation for that.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Appreciation

• Everywhere and at all times it is in thy power piously to acquiesce in thy present condition, and to behave justly to those who are about thee, and to exert thy skill upon thy present thoughts, that nothing shall steal into them without being well examined.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Power
  • Present
  • Thoughts

• Every dog has its day, dogAnd today, dog, just ain't yours.

  

  Toby Keith
  • Today
  • Dog

• The only reason ever to make a sequel is to spend more time with the characters that people love: to tell more of their story.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • People
  • Time

• I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.

  

  Leon Uris
  • People
  • Work
  • Relationship

• Forgiveness feels most dramatic when some ancient pattern of self-punishment collapses in a torrent of tears. But it is just as effective when practiced daily in tiny doses - relinquishing a pointless worry, getting wise to a self-destructive habit, serving notice on a cruel notion about yourself that has previously seemed justified. The beginning of forgiveness is alertness to false ideas.

  

  D. Patrick Miller
  • Worry
  • Wise
  • Tears

• Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

  

  David Hume
  • Truth
  • Fly

• I always was really confident about myself, about my voice, myself as a person, my body, all of those things, but as a songwriter - I just didn't identify as a songwriter at all.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson