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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Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn't want anybody's name on my backside. I personally don't like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone's likeness all over it.
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We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience.
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Universal peace as a result of cumulative effort through centuries past might come into existence quickly - not unlike a crystal that suddenly forms in a solution which has been slowly prepared. Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
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If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.
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My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on.
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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.
