Patrick Carman Quotes
For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
Quotes to Explore
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Remember who you are and where you come from; otherwise, you don't know where you are going.
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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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It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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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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It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.
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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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Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.
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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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For me there are two types of country: There's the shoot-yourself-in-the-head country, and then there's really good country music.
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You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
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Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.
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Barack Obama tends to poll better than he performs. The bottom line is, don't trust the polls. With all due respect to our pollsters, they might not tell us anything.
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I've never supported one penny of tuition increases.
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For kids, multitasking electronically is common. But they are totally focused. You can tell a good story, and they listen.
