Patricia MacLachlan Quotes
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I don't keep people around me that aren't family. You don't get to stay. Unless you're eating at the table with us, you're not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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This is the people's money, and we need to use it on their priorities. Increasing the pay of members of Congress is not their priority.
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Let your emotions come out. If your behavior is flat, your game will be flat, too.
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Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
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Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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When I interview celebrities, I always try to throw them off balance. My favorite is to ask 'em about crazy sex stuff like donkey punches and Monroe transfers. Works every time.
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Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.
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Work needs to be a reflection of your social values. You are how you work!
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I would love to be doing more voice-over work. It's such a fun and free playground to take risks, play around, and get sort of ridiculous.
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I see Vostok-6 quite often in the centre for cosmonaut training. And every time I pass it by, I stroke it and say, 'My lovely one, my best and most beautiful friend, my best and most beautiful man.'
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Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
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I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
