Patti LuPone Quotes
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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My history teacher was utterly terrifying, but her lessons were very inspiring. She got me interested in people and stories, which then led me to acting.
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I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes.
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
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The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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To film in water is three times harder than just on land.
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When you catch a glimpse of your potential, that's when passion is born.
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The dearest things I know are what you are.
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The silky hush of intimate things, fragrant with my fragrance, steal softly down, so loth to rob me of my last dear concealment.
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Psychiatrists - the dominant lay priesthood since the First World War...
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'You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone.' 'What then is a Master for?' 'To make you see the uselessness of having one.'
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I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.
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If the Lord - who is the light of all things - vouchsafe to enlighten me, I will treat of Light; wherefore I will divide the present work into 3 Parts... Linear Perspective, The Perspective of Colour, The Perspective of Disappearance.
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I almost feel like if I didn't have the gallery and museum content it would be easy to get lost. People's attention spans are so short; they see something and it trends for a few days and then it goes away and something else comes.
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I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it. I can't believe it when writers tell me 'I don't want to show my work to anybody'.
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We all just need to love ourselves and believe in ourselves.
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I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations.
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Again, it does seem like frustration is mounting in interesting ways, but I'm not sure there will be some dramatic tipping point. Then again, looking back on the history of television, you never know. People had to fight and articulate the politics and the rationale for different funding mechanisms. That was a long and drawn-out battle fought in different countries; it's not like BBC and the CBC in Canada just magically appeared out of the ether. People had to organize for it. I'm always willing to be surprised.
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I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.
