Patrick Marber Quotes
Back in my 20s, I was playing poker to avoid living. I wasn’t very satisfied with life. I used to play in a big game in Archway. And we’d play as much as we possibly could and for as much money as we had, and that went on for a couple of years.
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I mean, you've kind of got the track down, especially with ovals. The only thing that improves is that when race conditions come, you know what to expect slightly more from the track and from your car.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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I got to write most of everything I said.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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I want to take a close look at the SBA to see what works, what doesn't, what is duplicative, and what isn't even being utilized. We'll focus on what they do well and strengthen those areas.
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Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
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The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a daily paper, you learn to write very quickly; there is no time to sit and brood about what you are going to say.
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I'm the baddest among the bad guys.
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Submitting to others, rather than affirming our own reality, is the heart of active co-dependence—we give up our own inner world in order to be accepted by others.
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Some comments are within bounds, while some are not. But by whining about every little barb, candidates are trying to win the election through a war of staff resignation attrition, and Americans are losing the ability to distinguish between what is fair game and what is not.
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'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.
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That part of his life was over; and now, lying on the dense mat of grass, he knew in one sense it always had been. But it was fun remembering …
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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Back in my 20s, I was playing poker to avoid living. I wasn’t very satisfied with life. I used to play in a big game in Archway. And we’d play as much as we possibly could and for as much money as we had, and that went on for a couple of years.
