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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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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.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
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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.
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Personally, it was a big honor for me meeting so many families of the fallen soldiers and hearing their stories.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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I think its important to start the day with a proper breakfast.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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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.
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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
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I was a great help-side defender in college, but as far as really wanting to lock somebody up, that was never really my focus.
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The imporant things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile and then maybe give them a little nudge.
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You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.
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It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
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One of the great pressures we're facing in journalism now is it's a lot cheaper to hire thumb suckers and pundits and have talk shows on the air than actually have bureaus and reporters.
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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.
