Patrice O'Neal Quotes
What I'm trying to do is be righteous. And when I say “righteous,” I don't mean God. You know? God- Righteous. I mean just when I wake up, I know I was honest to myself.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I did not have any money, so when I came to New York, I just dressed myself with whatever I could find and the Army-Navy store.
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I don't live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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In the hands of good writers, you have the opportunity to present both sides of an opinion equally and that you leave it to the audience to listen and then make up their own minds.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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To a mind like mine, restless, inquisitive, and observant of everything that was passing, it is easy to suppose that religion was the subject to which it would be directed; and, although this subject principally occupied my thoughts, there was nothing that I saw or heard of to which my attention was not directed.
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Bitcoin's got its issues. But it is not competing with perfection.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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I think the few writers who influenced me most in writing short stories are Alice Munro and Grace Paley. They're very different, and I can't do what they do, but reading them gives me hope that I'll learn something from them.
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I've been blessed from the very beginning with the large gay audience, and I'm flattered. They always have the best taste anyways and are at the forefront of fashion, music, and style. So I'm really happy about that and very flattered. It's a good following to have because it means you're doing something right.
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Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.
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It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best.
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Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
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What I'm trying to do is be righteous. And when I say “righteous,” I don't mean God. You know? God- Righteous. I mean just when I wake up, I know I was honest to myself.
