Patti LuPone Quotes
New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.
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When I initially moved to the city, I had to stay in hotels for almost two years. I was fed up of that life, and it was then that I decided that I wanted a home in the city, so I shifted base permanently.
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My mom, she's the strict one. If we did something bad, we'd get a whippin' but nothing too bad.
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Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I don't care about revenues.
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Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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My wife and I often visit Rosales and the Ilokos as a matter of habit or whim induced by nostalgia, homesickness - whatever draws pilgrims to worshipped sanctuaries. Or, perhaps, what compels moths to seek the votive flame.
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Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
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I'm tempted by everything. My husband makes fun of me because every day it's a new food that I love. I have a weakness for butterscotch pudding, ice cream in any flavor and dark chocolate, although that's one thing I do keep in my house - 70% dark chocolate.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
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The good books stick around for a reason. There is a reason that we come back to them and they are so rewarding.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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When George Hirsch ran the New York City Marathon in 1976, the first year the course snaked through all five boroughs, the event was a lean affair. He and two thousand others dodged wayward bicycles and pedestrians on the streets, with little help from an anemic police presence.
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New Orleans lives by the water and fights it, a sand castle set on a sponge nine feet below sea level, where people made music from heartache, named their drinks for hurricanes and joked that one day you'd be able to tour the city by gondola.
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It may sound ambitious, but I really hope that modern design will spread all around the globe.
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Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.
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I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business.
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New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city.
