Patti LuPone Quotes
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Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.
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If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.
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I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.
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A nation needs to know how to utilise talent.
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Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
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It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.
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In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
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I've been working some really long hours for the last five or six years. Anybody who works on series television knows, and especially women because women spend probably two hours more than the guys with all their hair and makeup crap.
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Me gustas cuando callas porque estás como ausente,y me oyes desde lejos, y mi voz no te toca.
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One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.
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Every morning, I eat one fat-free yogurt with a sliced peach when peaches are in season, and one thin slice of whole-wheat bread. The same thing. I don't want to get fat. And I want to keep my fitness.
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And my favourite new songwriter is Joe Banfi from Sheffield. He's dark, edgy, serene and beautiful.
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I'm really into 'Veep.' I think that the showrunner Armando Iannucci is a genius.
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Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
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There just isn't anything more invigorating than to read an article or hear about an entrepreneur using the term 'disruptive technology' that makes no reference to me as the source. When it's clear they really got the idea and they use it as if it were in everyday parlance, that's the ultimate triumph.
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I'm hideously shy as myself, but on stage I can run around naked and bite the heads off fish.
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It hurts me that Holland chose an ugly path to aim for the title.
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What I want to do in life is just be a respectful man and just take care of my children and guide my family in the right direction. I'm not looking to be a chairperson, I'm not looking to be ambassador or anything in that capacity.
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There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!
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We are now living in a post-Roosevelt, post-Reagan universe. What comes next will not be post-partisan, because faction is an intrinsic human impulse.
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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men." "Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
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I just create, that's what I do.
