Patti Scialfa Quotes
You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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I love simplicity.
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I'm hoping I'll eventually get to be a beauty blogger myself because I do my own makeup, and I have for years.
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Never follow somebody else's path; it doesn't work the same way twice for anyone... the path follows you and rolls up behind you as you walk, forcing the next person to find their own way.
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I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
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Before prognostication, a disclaimer: I have never been able to pick a winner. Not that it has ever stopped me from trying to. Well, it has stopped me from buying stock, but let's not talk about that.
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There are over 1 million refugees in Lebanon, a country of 4 million people. How do we solve that? I have no idea. What's going on, I really don't know.
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Very difficult to understand American audience, what they like, what they don't like. Some movie I like very much, it doesn't work. Some movie I don't like, it gets big box office. Very difficult.
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First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.
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Include me out.
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If you play football, there's going to be a 100 percent injury rate. Something is going to be bothering you. So I just try to focus on the things that I can do to help my team.
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While professional basketball, football, and baseball players make millions and their salaries represent well over 50% of the billions generated by those sports, the spoils of boxing don't often make it to the boxers.
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My father didn't think running was sensible. He told me running is just wasting time.
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There is no doubt that the way journalism worked when I was growing up and getting started has changed forever.
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I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.
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In 2012, a five-year-old girl in Shandong province described to me how ten officials had chased her six-months-pregnant mother through the fields to prevent the birth of the family's second child, a boy. She died during the procedure.
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For me, I grew up doing kiteboarding where no girls are doing it, and you had to prove yourself. You just had to know that you could do it, too. It's the mentality you had to have to make it. I work hard like anyone else.
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I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.
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I think the kind of career I've had, something would have had to be sacrificed.
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I'm going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president and our military is convinced that the mission is complete.
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The money I earn from films means I can help the people I want to help - you can do a lot of good if you want to.
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It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.
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You know how you get close to something you want and then you start doing things to ensure that you don't quite get it? I did a lot of that.
