Patti Scialfa Quotes
When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
-
People assume when my hair is long that I am a lot cooler than I actually am. I am not opposed to this misconception, by the way, but it is a misconception.
-
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
-
If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
-
I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
-
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
-
America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
-
I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
-
My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
-
It is a great delusion in those whose understanding has been darkened by self-love, to think that there is any obedience in the subject who tries to draw the superior to what he wishes.
-
Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
-
The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
-
One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
-
I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
-
Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.
-
I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
-
Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
-
I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
-
If you're comfortable with yourself, then you'll look beautiful. If you're not feeling comfortable with yourself, than that kind of shows. I think that as cheesy as the pageant industry can be seen at times, it actually does help women - boosting their confidence and growing into their own. I have to give it credit for that.
-
The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.
-
I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
-
You know, looking at it objectively, I've written one or two good books.
-
Time is the currency - the highest valued currency we have now. And people giving you their time is so incredible. They don't have to like your book, either. That's a totally separate gift.
-
When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.
