Patricia MacLachlan Quotes
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I didn't start working out until college. But in college I could feel my body changing, and I knew that if I didn't make some changes, I was going to go in the wrong direction.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I still have a young attitude.
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To be able to make decisions and see them come to fruition and feel the excitement around them, what it generates within the company, how the artists get motivated - that's the most rewarding part; feeling I can be a catalyst for an artistic experience for our artists and for the public.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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The inner nature of man is the province of Music.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
