Merritt Patterson Quotes
Every Brit I met had the best sense of humor. They're hilarious: very dry and witty.
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I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional publishers, but there's a great deal of opportunity out there if you've got the right story.
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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Berlin has traditionally backed a rules-based eurozone in which every member state is responsible for its own finances, including bank bailouts, with political union limited to a fiscal overlord's possessing veto power over national budgets that violate the rules.
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The challenge in multi-lateral negotiations is not to lose sight of one's over-arching goal in the midst of the cacophony of opinions at the bargaining table.
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My show is my statement. What I have to say is on the screen. My life is my own. I don't want to talk about my private self. Why should I?
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I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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If you take a frozen box and stick it in the microwave, you become connected to the factory. We've forgotten who we are.
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I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.
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At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.
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Rather than just mimic processes in nature, I think we can harness the powers of nature itself and allow it to help us create. That, in a way is what the 'Dune' project is all about.
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I always feel I'm blessed, you know. I thank God for letting me use his voice. That's how I see it.
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As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
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I had this belief that I couldn't just accept to be treated as an object. It was a problem of dignity.
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I'm not, like, an action-hero guy.
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Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
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To Anthony life was a struggle against death, that waited at every corner. It was as a concession to his hypochondriacal imagination that he formed the habit of reading in bed - it soothed him. He read until he was tired and often fell asleep with the lights still on.
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I have a lot of belief in myself.
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If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp.
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I'm always in favor of Israel responding strongly when it's threatened.
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When you consider the opportunity and power He had to really do a job, and then look at the stupid, ugly little mess He made of it instead, His sheer incompetence is almost staggering.
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Every Brit I met had the best sense of humor. They're hilarious: very dry and witty.
