Chris Patten Quotes
So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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My aunt is the director of the acapella group Black Voices. I was so struck by them as a child. They sang with such passion and conviction. By the time I turned 15, I had plucked up the courage to ask if I could join the group. Acapella is a different discipline from singing with an accompaniment - it is much more exposed.
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Sometimes you will think you can't take it another day. But if you hang in there, one step at a time, you will be able to accomplish more than you ever imagine.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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Do we care about these people that are HIV-positive whose lives have been ruined? Those are the people I'm the most concerned about. Every night I think about this.
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Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.
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People always ask, 'Do you wanna do movies; do you wanna do other things?' But they haven't fired me from 'OLTL' yet. When that happens, I'll make that choice.
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I always believe the rule by king or official leader is outdated. Now we must catch up with the modern world.
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
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I don't really ask to take pictures of people. I kind of just get in their face.
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One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.
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I just don't think it's very dignified to ask people to like you. You can just wind up being somebody's ottoman.
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Dread. Bottomless dread... I am that shadow on the threshold defending my remnant peace.
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So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
