Patricia Riggen Quotes
I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
Quotes to Explore
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.
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Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.
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They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have been women, you know, Sonia Gandhi for heaven's sakes in India.
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If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are special to me.
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I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
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Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
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The patient is in intensive care but still alive.
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In my home State of Louisiana, several institutions of higher education have been impacted by both Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, literally dozens across the entire State.
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When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God, then we are in complete harmony with the Spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
