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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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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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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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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 like adventures and people who live with the volume on high.
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I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.
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The thing we often forget to talk about, or perhaps we take for granted, is our country's dazzling beauty. Our natural environment is so much a part of Australia's art, writing, music and culture, both indigenous and non indigenous.
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I like working with new and young directors.
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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.
