Patty Smyth Quotes
Being a mom was a full-time job. I was never willing to sacrifice everything for my career.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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The starting point of all achievement is desire.
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I love working with a cast and a group of people every day, which is different than recording because you're usually pretty isolated and alone. They serve as a good balance for each other.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
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All our wives are experimental psychologists.
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My philosophy is whatever you do, you've got to invest in yourself. If you don't, there are a lot of people out there who will get the job because they're more prepared than you.
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In the end of the day, you are human. Film is a job which is not an individual job; you have tons and tons of people behind you - you have a whole crew of people working. But, an actor is the face of a film, so you get all of the good things, but you get the bad things, also.
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Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind.
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Since music is so important to me, I don't need to put in any extra effort to do this; it just flows for me. It's as simple as drinking water and having food, so definitely, music is one of the main purposes of my life.
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Our outworn economic system dooms millions to frustration.
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Being a mom was a full-time job. I was never willing to sacrifice everything for my career.
