Isabel Paterson Quotes
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.
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I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I have really high expectations for myself, so I just want to go out there and compete.
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I want to say that maybe I've made some wrong decisions, but I'm still an honorable person, and I intend to take care of all of my obligations.
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I naturally want to be provocative.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
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I want to have a food truck that would just be bathrooms. I would line it up in back of the other food trucks, and I'd charge $1 for use.
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I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.
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I never heard 'I love you' as a child. I never felt pretty or cared for.
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Listen, I could not possibly think of a form of mind control that it would take to convince me for any reason to drop what I do now to go and fight for someone's fight for geopolitical repositioning of energy resources...you know?
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Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
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It takes the best part of a lifetime to find out what you don't want.
