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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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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A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings.
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In the end, leadership comes down to consistency and strong, confident action upon which the team can rely - and this doesn't mean imposing a bunch of rules.
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What is striking is that from almost from the very beginning of certainly by September and October of 1963, as the book was being constructed, that [Alex] Haley was vetting - asking questions to the publisher and to the publisher's attorney regarding many of the things that Malcolm X was saying. He was worried that he would not have a book that would have the kind of sting that he wanted.
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I don't ever worry about whether I'm being true to my country roots. My country roots were adopted. I never worry about what I can do and what I should do. I just do what I want to do.
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I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.
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A dog barks and stands at bay if he sees any one assault his master. I should be indeed remiss, if, seeing the truth of God thus attacked, I should remain dumb, without giving one note of warning.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
