Pat Travers Quotes
I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.

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A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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If you're in a film that you're proud of and you care about, then you're always happy to talk about it.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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So, deadpan I think just means not acknowledging for one second that you think that this is funny and clever.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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I will come to know when my time's up, and when it is, I will exit gracefully. I will not hang around till I am kicked out.
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I started over again with an image: Nothing goes right. Then when The Godfather came out, all I heard was, Show respect. With me, you show respect. So I changed the image to I don't get no respect. I tried it out in Greenwich Village. I remember the first joke I told: Even as a kid, I'd play hide and seek and the other kids wouldn't even look for me. The people laughed. After the show, they started saying to me, Me, too - I don't get no respect. I figured, let's try it again.
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I've found that falling doesn't always leave you fallen for.
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My heart burns for the deliverance of Africa.
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Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity to the fittest, who were going to survive, to the fittest to rise themselves as high as they could.
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.