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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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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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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When a handful of tech giants are gatekeepers to the world's data, it's no surprise that the debate about balancing progress against privacy is framed as 'pro-data and, therefore, innovation' versus 'stuck in the Dark Ages'.
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In the ancient world, taxes were paid in kind: landowners paid in crops or livestock; the landless paid with their labor. Taxing trade made medieval monarchs rich and funded the early-modern state.
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Nothing ought to be said or done which could create the impression that unbiased reconsideration of the most elementary premises of philosophy is a merely academic or historical affair.
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What Canada has to do is to have a government connected to the priorities of the people of which it is elected to serve. Those priorities include ensuring medicare is sustainable, support for the military, and tax and justice systems that work.
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Back in the early days of international, everybody wanted to customize the menu for every place.
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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.
