Paula Patton Quotes

A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.

Paula Patton

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• Are we going to solve the issue of poverty? Absolutely not. Are we going to have an impact? I'm committed to it, and if we don't, I'll have no regrets because we're going to try everything we can.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Poverty
  • Impact
  • No Regrets

• I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Society

• The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Work
  • Writer
  • Impact

• I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Photographer
  • Magazine

• Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • Music
  • Me

• We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Law
  • Government
  • Need

• All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Responsibility

• My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Wrong
  • Places

• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Sometimes
  • Confidence
  • Look

• There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Food
  • Like
  • Wonderful

• I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Want
  • Feel

• My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Live

• I made a commitment to myself; that I wanted to be an actress, and I wanted to do films that make a difference. It has to move people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Myself
  • Commitment

• I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Life
  • Why
  • Know

• I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Realize

• Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Up
  • Look
  • Army

• Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Trying
  • Stock
  • Winner

• Tra-la-las and doo-be-do's became a Neil Sedaka trademark. I was the king of the tra-la-las and doo-be-do's in the '50s and '60s. But then when I re-recorded 'Breaking Up,' I started with a verse instead of the doo-be-do's!

  

  Neil Sedaka
  • Up
  • King

• I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we'd all be a little happier.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • World

• I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.

  

  Eduardo Galeano
  • People
  • Believe
  • Charity

• Sometimes, being different feels a lot like being alone. But with that being said, being true to that and being true to my standards and my way of doing things in my art and my music, everything that has made me feel very different... in the end, it has made me the happiest.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Music
  • Different
  • Art

• I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.

  

  Amanda Bynes
  • People
  • Believe
  • Important

• A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.

  

  Paula Patton
  • People
  • Music
  • Different