Patricia Riggen Quotes
I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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Candice is the original spelling of my name. I changed it to Kandyse when I was really young and first starting out in the business as kind of a joke. I didn't realize it would stick! I did consider changing it, but then it seemed too confusing, so then I asked them to change it back. Not too soon, however!
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.
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I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.
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Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently opinionated and spirited young woman, which at the time was unheard of.
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I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
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My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.
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When the women's movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn't wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.
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Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources.
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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?
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I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again.
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What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
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If you want to change a country, you're going to be bumped every now and then.
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In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.
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The women who don't feel that people think they're sexy are the ones who seem to titillate in that way, because they don't feel like they're getting that kind of approval.
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The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation.
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I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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I have great respect for Sandra Day O'Connor. She has broken so many barriers for women in the law, and was a master negotiator and pragmatist in her days on the Supreme Court.
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As a songwriter I hate this whole, 'If it's a sad song, it has to sound like a sad song thing.' And that goes all the way back to my days with the Format. I'm an insane narcissist, so if I have to get something off my chest, I'll get something off my chest.
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I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.
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I'm not in a position where I can pick and choose. It's the other way around. The studios pick and choose.
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You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
