Patti LuPone Quotes
I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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I think it's more important than ever to be as vocal as I can be about things I believe in outside of music.
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I don't study; I create.
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I would love to see as many of the black players as possible in today's Major League Baseball make every effort to go to the Negro Leagues Museum and get a first-hand view of how it all started.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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The best part of being a vegan is the purity and peace of mind one experiences and the strong connection I feel to the animal kingdom.
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Down the country, people in rural areas are struggling to get a speed of even 1 MB, not much better than the old dial-up system we used to have when the system was in relative infancy.
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If everybody knows where everything is kept you can avoid wasting time looking for things.
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We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat.
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If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.
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I went to boarding school from the age of eight - first to prep school, then to Eton. One thing that kind of education teaches you is community living: there's little retreat. That's why people come out of it and talk about lifelong friendships forged in the furnace.
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I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.
