Patti Davis Quotes
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I think from a very young age I always have this desire to perform.
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When I went into the Montreal Games, nobody expected much out of me.
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Life is precious, and when someone dies it's an opportunity to realise how precious it is. My brother drowned when I was 17. He was 15. I think I grew from that. My father didn't. It really crushed him.
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Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
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My father always told me, 'Before you become a queen, you have to learn how to take care of your own things.' So I knew how to do all of it, but I had never really done it on a daily basis. So I was cleaning houses, and I started working restaurants.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don't deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.
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If it sells, it sells. If it doesn't sell, I'll go make a movie.
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I am blessed to receive a word from God every day in receiving the scriptures and reading the scriptures. And God speaks through the Bible.
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I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.
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I got to work with my wife, Lena Olin, for the first time, which was great. I thought it might be difficult in some way to talk to one's wife in a different way but it was so not forced.
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We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
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I like to prepare each tour in a different way.
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I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.
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I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.
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Police have to have one of the most difficult jobs in society today. But at the same time, I think, a person in that position - their responsibility has to be high as well.
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You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.
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If you know what you're looking for, the illustrations might give you a tip about what is coming in that section. But it takes a lot of study and familiarity with the work for anyone to really "decode" it, and there are also images that are just thematically important, and not necessarily pointing to specific poems, so mainly it was just a fun puzzle for ourselves.
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Is action merely the incidental product of thought, or is thought the consequential product of action?
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One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
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I haven't read a lot of Westerns. But I wrote a Western. The influences were all cinematic.
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Loss teaches you to figure things out as they come along.
