Patty Smyth Quotes
Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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I love badminton. That's my sport!
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Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.
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It was supposed to be in the second street project for Main Street. But who knows? Maybe it will be built one of these days. We never throw away any idea.
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I'd rather take a major financial hit being honest than get rich by lying. 6
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Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.
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Scandal rarely toured after those first few hits. I want to go out and sing and connect with fans who may have never seen us live.
