Patti Scialfa Quotes
When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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I'm very close with Bob and his lovely, fabulous wife Catherine, too.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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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.
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My mother worked in factories, worked as a domestic, worked in a restaurant, always had a second job.
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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.
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Men are domineering in rural Haryana, and that shows in sport, too.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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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.
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I always love to push myself, because I am not so self-confident.
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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.
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Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.
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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.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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I got into acting for the chance to be many different people and many different characters. I love hiding in a role and doing the research. If there is an opportunity to change my body, I will change my body. I'll slip in and disguise myself in a role. That is a really big treat for me.
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It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.
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I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
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I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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'Animal Kingdom' was an amalgam of two people that I had met-slash-known, not particularly well. They were both very, very scary people for very different reasons.
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When you're married to someone famous, people know you, but they're not really seeing you.
