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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The way James Franco goes to new projects, he does it the way an artist should, which is with a question mark. Like, will this work?
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It's not a matter of us standing outside it and ticking off the boxes: yes, the Bible is faithful here; yes, it's telling the truth there, and so on, but rather granted that it's God-given. It's the frame of reference that shows us how to live in, tells us how to think about everything.
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So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see me for anything else. I knew, in order to open up my career, I had to leave or that's all I would ever be given.
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I love every minute in the kitchen with my kids, even the mess (I've learned to embrace it!). I find that in the car on the way home from school, I often get one-word answers when I ask about their day. But when we're cooking, I get in-depth stories.
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I have lived and worked in Britain all my life. Not even in the dark days of penal Labour taxation in the Seventies did I have any intention of leaving the country of my birth.
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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.
