Patty Smyth Quotes
I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but I lived in Brooklyn for a while as a kid. I went to junior high school there. Girls in Brooklyn have to be tough - I mean real tough - just to get by. It's life in the combat zone.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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When I was a kid in Michigan, I used to play ball with a town team on Sunday. Of course, I'd go to church first. Played the church organ, as a matter of fact.
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
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Tactics flow from a positionally superior game.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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Your imagination is your most important tool as an actor, as cheesy as that sounds.
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I went to public school up until junior high.
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If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.
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I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but I lived in Brooklyn for a while as a kid. I went to junior high school there. Girls in Brooklyn have to be tough - I mean real tough - just to get by. It's life in the combat zone.
