Patricia Marx Quotes
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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I can go all over the world with Skype.
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Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it's a green light.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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I think that when somebody loses a bet, they tend to sometimes confuse their motives in rooting and enjoying the game because if you lose your bet, even though the team you're rooting for wins, you have a potentially conflicted outcome.
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Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
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One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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Nepotism sometimes can be a lose-lose situation.
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I can swear like a fishwife.
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I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.
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I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
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You just do the best you can with what you've got... and sometimes magic strikes.
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Portraying visual impairment is difficult. I can see what's going on, but I have to act like I can see nothing. And this can be quite a challenge.
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I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say what I felt was trying to be portrayed there.
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I can only focus on doing what's right.
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Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.
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I fell through a stage once. I was doing a truly African dance, and all of a sudden, I hit the ground with my foot and went straight through the stage. I guess they didn't have much money, so the floor was kind of rotting.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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I hate exercising self-control.
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I would never totally deny myself any specific type of food.
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If you think of the way a composer or say a pop arranger works - he has an idea and he writes it down, so there's one transmission loss. Then he gives the score to a group of musicians who interpret that, so there's another transmission loss. So he's involved with three information losses. Whereas what I nearly always do is work directly to the sound if it doesn't sound right. So there's a continuous loop going on.
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For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
