Patricia Riggen Quotes
I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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The word inventors have to create a new term to describe how I felt when I learned that 'Refund' was on the shortlist for the Frank O'Connor International Story prize - Excited, thrilled, honored, none of them quite do it.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superman, that's what I'd do.' Even though he's an alien, he's more relatable, more human.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe as I wrote and rewrote her story.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
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I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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Octavia Butler was more interested in writing a good story than in worrying about where to slot it.
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My family were pretty big hippies.
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Right now, the offense has us on its back and it's carrying us. There will come a time when the pitchers will put us on its back and carry us.
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I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit, I suppose it is some taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths.
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If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly.
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My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.
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I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and had to fight a lot.
