Patricia Marx Quotes
Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know?
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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You are just your intelligence.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
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We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Zen master anytime soon. But a little enlightenment could keep you from making some common investing errors.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.
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The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention you get and the more threatening or dangerous you appear to people. And the more people try to knock you down.
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Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy.
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Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn't saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.
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You have no idea of the people I didn't marry.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
