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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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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I wish I could meet a Christian who would proselytize to me, but they keep running away from me. I wanna talk to you all.
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The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.
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Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
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My baby does the hanky panky.
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It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.
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When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
