Pat Cadigan Quotes
He had the sudden urge to put his arms around her, but the look on her face said that if he made a move toward her, she would move away, and maybe she would keep moving away from him until the distance between them was too great to cross again in one lifetime.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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Let's just say the genes were there for me to excel athletically.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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I buy food and gasoline - that's it.
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I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.
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Dinosaurs replace their teeth throughout their life. And T. rex replaced all of their teeth every year.
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Fame is definitely a monster: it can suck you in and spit you out and change you. The biggest challenge is to remain yourself regardless of what people say about you.
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I always look forward, not back.
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My brother was going to go to England to wrestle, but then we found out they were opening a wrestling school in Bray, County Wicklow. I thought, 'I'll go along and try that.'
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This is why fiction is an art, and life is not - how much more affecting is the lie than the truth.
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I do chores around the house, but I don't get an allowance for them. I wash the dishes and sweep the floor... I'm sweeping the floor quite a lot, and my mum always expects me to get a broom and swagger it across the floor all the time.
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Expressing the thoughts of my comrades, I suggested, among other means, the organization of an international information service on inventories, on production, and on the needs of the various countries for raw materials.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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My mother was in vaudeville, but after she had her children, she quit working.
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He had the sudden urge to put his arms around her, but the look on her face said that if he made a move toward her, she would move away, and maybe she would keep moving away from him until the distance between them was too great to cross again in one lifetime.
