Patricia Riggen Quotes
There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.
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Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
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There is total unanimity that the most serious threat facing the United States and Israel is a nuclear-armed Iran.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.
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All human beings are, in fact, born with dozens of mutations their parents lacked, and a few of those mutations could well be lethal if we didn't have two copies of every gene, so one can pick up the slack if the other malfunctions.
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I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.
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The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.
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I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I'm signing.
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If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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We all know Illinois has big challenges. And under Gov. Rauner, things have only gotten worse.
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Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
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When children are hungry, sleepy from a night spent fighting untreated asthma, or hobbled by symptoms of undiagnosed illnesses, they are less likely to do well in school.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally dealing with production values.
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To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
