Patricia Riggen Quotes
I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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Law gave me some structure... all these rules and internal disciplines.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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When I was a kid, I had an Atari 2600, and I would play Pac Man, Frogger, all that kind of stuff. And I did enjoy going to the arcade.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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I started out in a professional choir at 13 years old. We traveled to different places, and I had a close relationship with the leaders of our choir. We were recording when I was 15, so it wasn't like I had to wait until 25 to find out certain things.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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It has been extraordinary, wonderful, I've been three feet off the ground since I made that first record.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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I never ran for student council or class president or any of that stuff. I didn't hang out with those people. It was just a different universe from the one I inhabited.
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What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end.
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I like the yin-yang of a cop's life, where he's part fascist and part saint. That's where the good dramas are.
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I am going to try to rip the economic guts out of Indiana. But we're going to do it methodically and aggressively.
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I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.
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I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the language is less important than if it's a good film.
