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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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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Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
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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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Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.
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My father came here from Mexico.
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I associate heavy metal with fantasy because of the tremendous power that the music delivers.
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I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.
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I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in different places, and set up their administrations, the men surrendered. And it was the women who led the first revolt.
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I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least.
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I just create, that's what I do.
