Patricia Schroeder Quotes
When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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The First Nations Financial Transparency Act insulted the integrity of the very people in our communities who guide our economic policy and act as our mediators with provincial and federal governments.
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I run a charity. If my name pops up in your call ID, chances are I'm about to ask you for something - money, free ad space, your first born. So it is probably no surprise that people often don't take my calls.
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I was playing a defensive guard in 'My All American' who is a really fast runner, so a lot of my training was running. I wasn't too worried about bulking up because he was supposed to be on the small side.
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I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
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When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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At 14, I'd have given my left arm to be a boy: I thought I was horrible and that no-one would ever find me attractive.
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A woman can never have enough shoes.
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Are people like Tom Cruise in touch with their public? I doubt it. Footballers are more like the rock stars of yester-year: they are box office.
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I am an ordinary person.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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It wasn't until two or three years ago that I actually learned that in the end he actually did kill someone. But that was a choice that he faced: to kill or be killed.
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You know, food is such - it's a hug for people.
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PepsiCo did not have a woman in the senior ranks, nor a foreign-born person who was willing to think differently.
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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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You can be a man who loves a woman but love someone the way a gay man loves another man or a woman loves a woman.
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When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.
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I think of myself more as a filmmaker or as a film person than as strictly just a writer. I don't come out of playwriting or anything like that.
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When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
