Patty Duke Quotes
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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Basically, people in other countries don't want to have to work quite as flat-out as they do in Japan.
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We've always made progress by understanding what the next great challenge is.
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While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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The trip to Iraq confirmed that I made the right decision when I voted against lending Iraq the $18 billion the United States plans to use to help rebuild the country.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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The only reality show that I do tune in for is 'Shark Tank.'
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My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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All good performance pieces have some philosophical validity. That's the difference between mere theater and performance art.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I'm not much into speculation.
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When I went to America, I spoke so much about who I was and gave so much away in a confessional, Irish, story-telling way that I suddenly realised I had given up a lot of myself. I had to shut up.
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When I was young, my mother would not let me get my ears pierced because I used to get into too many fights.
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The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
