Patty Smyth Quotes

We shot the video for 'Broken' where both my parents grew up. There was always a strong sense of serving our country in the neighborhood - my father and all my uncles served, and most of them enlisted.

Patty Smyth

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• I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Love
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen,' but now things have changed a lot.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Roles
  • Position
  • Queen

• The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Winning
  • Baseball
  • Three

• I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.

  

  Lamorne Morris
  • Sports
  • Basketball
  • Big

• I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Guy
  • Hair
  • Thought

• Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Honor
  • Soldiers
  • Meeting

• What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.

  

  Edith Evans
  • Want
  • Beauty
  • Theatre

• Village cricket spread fast through the land.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Fast
  • Cricket
  • Village

• I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.

  

  Hanneli Mustaparta
  • Important
  • Day
  • Start

• In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Play
  • Mom
  • Hollywood

• There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Media
  • Now

• I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Facts
  • Try
  • Flavor

• I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Song
  • Being
  • Lyrics

• In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.

  

  Mal Peet
  • You
  • Town
  • Ghosts

• Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • Real
  • Power

• Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Deep
  • Winter
  • Roots

• Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not as common as it once was.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Men
  • High
  • Singing

• Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Culture
  • Rich
  • Listen

• It scared me to death to think about improv, but I got hired for a year at Second City in Chicago, which made me nervous, but I found I could improvise. Then I was in a group called the Ace Trucking Company, which we'd do, like, a half hour set of material, then open up for improvisation.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Up
  • Death
  • City

• A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• We're all addicted to sort of the habits of our lives. And we get stuck, and sometimes we'll get stuck because we had traumas that we don't want to remember.

  

  James Redfield
  • Remember

• We shot the video for 'Broken' where both my parents grew up. There was always a strong sense of serving our country in the neighborhood - my father and all my uncles served, and most of them enlisted.

  

  Patty Smyth
  • Up
  • Country
  • Father