Patrick Carman Quotes
'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a movie at the same time.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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I'm not the type of person to have a schadenfreude.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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I am a great believer that a captain is as good as his team.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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In my early 20s, I was a big fan of Theodore Dreiser and might be one of the few people on the planet who have voluntarily read all his novels.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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Almost every woman I have spoken to about pregnancy has a story about her doctor giving her a hard time about her weight. Later in my pregnancy it felt like all of my time with my doctor was focused on how fat I was getting - so fat!
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I think what human beings need is to be able to laugh at the absurd, hold on to ambiguity, and learn to love nuance, instead of making everything one or the other, and structurally, so much of the Internet and online publishing doesn't have room for any of that.
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The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
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You don't have to force your career to happen all at once.
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'Skeleton Creek' is like nothing you've ever read before because it's a book and a movie at the same time.
