Patty Smyth Quotes
I haven't always made all of the right decisions from a career perspective, but things worked out in the end.
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
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Justice is revenge.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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A tendency to focus on art over business has meant that too many designers have failed to make the most of their critical acclaim.
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I'm my own hero on the sets; why should I work with other heroes? The Khans did not want to work with me when I started. Why should I work with them now?
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.
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I'm probably creative for half an hour a day. The rest of the time, I'm just doing what's necessary to make that creativity visible.
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Mysterious can be cool, if you're in Hollywood and everyone's happy. But it can be really bad if people perceive that the financial interests are adversarial, that there's money versus people. A lot of Goldman Sachs people went into government, so at a time when there's a distrust of institutions, some of that reflects on us.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Being a teenager is hard.
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I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
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I haven't always made all of the right decisions from a career perspective, but things worked out in the end.
