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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As soon as I could talk, I chose shorts to wear.
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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The thing about Marvel is that they're not - they're into real acting. They're looking for artists that are willing to take chances and are willing to create characters. Even if that character has been around for years and years in comic books, they still are depending on us to create something and take it somewhere else.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
