Colleen Patrick-Goudreau Quotes
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Dramas make me laugh. The other day, I saw 'The Place Beyond the Pines,' and I was giggling the whole time. I laugh when I'm uncomfortable.
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In the case of the classic Western helicopter parent, it starts with Baby Einstein and reward charts for toilet training, and it never really ends, which is why colleges have to devote so many resources to teaching parents how to leave their kids alone.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
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When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.
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I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God. You know, going to the mosque, the ritual and the tradition, it's just not in me to do. So I don't do it.
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Good material is good material.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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The Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations all fell victim to chronically relying on Beijing's empty promises with the distant hope that China would finally use its influence to reign in Pyongyang's provocative behavior, to no avail.
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Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.
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I'm not ashamed of it, but people would think I'm ashamed of Bieber. I got Bieber on my iPod.
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I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
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As far as I'm concerned... there's a side to an actor that wants to go on and play a thousand different roles.
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I like routine.
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There's nothing better than achieving your goals, whatever they might be.
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I'm kind of a pop culture stew, you know.
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I'm one of those actors who likes to do it wrong nine ways before I come to the tenth way, which is the way I think it should be.
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An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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Many people put up with things that are unpleasant but tolerable, rather than changing them; their situation needs to become unbearable before they take action.
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Unspoken expectations are premeditated resentments.
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A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.
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Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something. Anything.
