Patricia Riggen Quotes
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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I love Quentin Tarantino; I love Harmony Korine, Larry Clarke.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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People are always angry at America. They're absolutely certain that America either caused their problems or is deliberately not fixing their problems. But the anger is always directed at America and never at Americans.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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Maybe the one I enjoyed playing most was A Month in the Country.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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I think, the people around home are very supportive to us.
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Sure, I've been a victim, but in retrospect, most of it has been of my own making. I allowed it to happen.
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It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
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I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
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I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.
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I've been bisexual for as long as I can remember. I remember being made fun of in junior high for that. It was something that was shameful, and it really shouldn't be.
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Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative device, a phenomenon that would allow me to draw in a lot of different players. I was like, 'Shoot, eviction does that.'
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My history is pretty different from the history of most professors. I was a high school dropout. I dropped out and became a science fiction writer.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
