Patti LuPone Quotes
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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A man who gives himself to be a possession of aliens leads a Yahoo life, having bartered his soul to a brute-master. He is not of them. He may stand against them, persuade himself of a mission, batter and twist them into something which they, of their own accord, would not have been.
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I have no discipline, which is a horrible flaw for any writer. Once I'm well started on a project, though, then I'm addicted to it all day long. When it's done, I collapse and have to really kick myself to start a new one.
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I started going to acting school in my senior year in high school, and I remained in acting school through four years of college.
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My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.
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I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well. The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.
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And we shared the story of Korean War veteran Dick Shank, who made it home to that baby boy, and lived out his life - at 84 years old, he was still roller skating - because no war should ever be forgotten and no veteran should ever be overlooked.
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The emphasis of the men’s group was on understanding, coping, changing the situation and then, if all else failed, getting out; the emphasis of battered women’s groups is on getting out first, and second, locking up the problem (the man).
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Sic rerum summa novatursemper, et inter se mortales mutua vivunt. augescunt aliae gentes, aliae minuuntur,inque brevi spatio mutantur saecla animantumet quasi cursores vitai lampada tradunt.
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Foreknowledge is power.
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Romantic relationships are the least interesting thing for me to write about. I'm 45, and that's not the most interesting thing in my life anymore.
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I very much feel that marriage is a sacrament and that sacrament should extend... to that legal entity of a union between what traditionally in our Western values has been defined as between a man and a woman.
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Sometimes I make more money in a weekend than my grandpa made in a year.
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I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.
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Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.
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I love women's college basketball, but I don't want it in the NBA.
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The question that I can't shake - it's this question that keeps coming up for me - is What does the shared home of the future look like? People are sharing homes at a rate that no one ever predicted, but residences and homes weren't designed for it. They were designed around ideas of privacy and separation.
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I was raised Jewish and fully embrace the core beliefs of Judaism - the ones that I identify as core beliefs, which are essentially freedom and justice. But the supernatural aspects of religion were never important to me.
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The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which is both natural and supernatural--understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.
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But, we have had the debate in our country now for a number of years as to whether or not free trade agreements are good for economic growth and economic opportunity in creating jobs and lifting people out of poverty.
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The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural.
