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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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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Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
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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 dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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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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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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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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Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female, as possible. For, mark you, the women have made no improvement - they have only tried to be men and they have only succeeded in being third-rate men.
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I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.
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They played really hard. We played hard in spurts. It's the first time in a long time we got outplayed. We're not a great scoring team. When we don't have a defensive mind-set, we're in trouble.
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
