Patrick Carman Quotes
For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
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I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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What I'm trying to do is to write a story. If you take something from it, that's wonderful; if you don't, that's wonderful as well.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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I was a very, very good congressman.
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Without justice you won't have stability.
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I hear my own daughters talking about big companies polluting the environment, and then I realise they are talking about companies of which one I am running. But when I tell them to read the things we are doing, then they realise we are doing good things. But millennials are really a great lot.
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You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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I want to just be what kids believe in.
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Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
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As Faulkner says, all of us have the capacity in us for great good and for great evil, for love but also for hate. I wanted to write those kinds of complex character in a fantasy, and not just have all the good people get together to fight the bad guy.
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Just doing his part, ... He doesn't have to do more than that, you know. Direct it and get us points, but just do his part. I think one thing about Patrick is he's a real good student. I think he's smart. When you put the game plan in he has a feel for what we're doing there, so he only has to do his part. He doesn't have to make something happen by himself.
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The final conflict will be between the Communists and the ex-Communists.
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It turns out we are all quite easily swayed if someone knows what they are doing - which is a great thing and a dangerous thing.
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Sen. Udall can only talk about one thing: He's a social issues warrior.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
