Patti Davis Quotes
Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I didn't do it, nobody saw me do it, there's no way you can prove anything!
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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When I decided to work with Krishna Vamsi, people around me were apprehensive about my decision. They warned me that I shouldn't work with an unsuccessful director.
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How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't. There's a hierarchy. Why do I pick out that thing, that thing, that thing?
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I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
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Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
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Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.
