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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I think Spain will always remain inspirational, and I think French cuisine will continue to be very French and yet very relevant with its time and keep evolving. But the last thing you want for it is to become too trendy and confusing. It has too much history.
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On my first European solo tour, I was selling maybe 50 tickets a city until I showed up in Paris and heard the show was already at 150 tickets, which, at the time, really blew my mind and took me by complete surprise.
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When I'm off the golf course, I feel the pressure, but I try to concentrate on the golf course.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
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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.
