Patricia Riggen Quotes
I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to 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 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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In the past, TSR and now Wizards of the Coast have asked me to do game stats for my characters, and I'm never comfortable doing that. It's all relative after all.
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My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.
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No Catalan citizen and no Catalan company will leave the E.U. That is evident, and nobody can dispute it.
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With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?
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Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience will be disappointed if there's not a tragic ending.
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I've wanted to interview Hillary Clinton since I was 15 years old.
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
