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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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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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?
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Business leaders, social justice groups, farmers and ranchers, doctors and nurses and people from all walks of life are concerned about the climate threat.
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The cost of motoring is a massive issue at the moment, there's no question. The price of petrol goes up every time you go to the petrol station.
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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.
