Patricia Riggen Quotes
I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I'm a bit of a 'Throny,' as I think the 'Game of Thrones' fans refer to themselves.
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Building codes are a good thing. People who throw rocks at inspectors are being naive. It's a lot like police officers; we want them around unless they stop us for a ticket. It's the same with inspectors.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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One thing I can say about George... he may not be able to keep a job, but he's not boring.
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I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.
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You can't date if you're famous. That's how it seems to me.
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It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
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Just for you to know, people, models, are very smart. We're investing money in the right way, and, you know, a modeling job I'm taking as a businesswoman. So it's not fun for me; it's work.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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I think every Muslim woman has to feel the world out for herself.
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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Every job is important because each one represents an American's livelihood and ability to raise a family. Yet spending our time building walls around America will do nothing to help us compete for the millions of new jobs being created.
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I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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For me, there are no my people and strangers, no bad people and good people. All people are equal for me.
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The job of the president of the United States is to talk to the public, is to explain to them. Now, some presidents talk too much, like Bill Clinton. Some presidents try to talk but don't know how, like George Bush senior.
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The thing that has always baffled me about people's perception of my writing is the sense that I'm a very controversial, opinionated, polarizing person. I feel like I write about things that I'm interested in, and I describe why they're interesting to me. I could be negative, I guess. It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good.
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Before I became a chief minister, I never thought that one day I'd be the chief minister.
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Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.
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When we were filming, I thought that I was Peter Pan, you know? I thought I was the coolest kid in the world, so I wound up being the coolest kid in the world.
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I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because they came in and started directing things like 'Harry Potter.'
