Patricia Riggen Quotes

The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments and try to bring in what your gut is telling you.

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• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Lie
  • Measure
  • Tape

• I think it's always dangerous to make political arguments in a religiously ideological way. And it's very dangerous to treat as traitors to the American nation those who think differently.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • American
  • Political
  • Treat

• You are what you can prove you've done. That's how people judge you.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Done
  • Judge

• Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Partner
  • Office

• They're anti-government ideologues who dominate the Republican Party.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Party
  • Republican
  • Dominate

• If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• I do have the sense that, although there may be no one way to write a novel, there are many novelists who are in fact part of some sort of larger literary community, whether in the form of a writing group or an MFA program, to name two of the more common forms.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • May
  • Community

• Becoming a mom made me more contentious about expressing my true taste.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • True
  • Me
  • Mom

• One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Country
  • Nature
  • Day

• Being a role model is about being true to myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • True
  • Myself
  • Model

• You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • Life
  • You

• Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Acting
  • Living
  • Creating

• I get so nervous before I go onstage - beyond butterflies!

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Nervous
  • Go
  • Beyond

• A lot of times, losing a fight is tough. In your darkest hours, I guess your true colors show.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • True
  • Fight
  • Losing

• I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
  • Up
  • Country
  • Internet

• My kind of, like, life goal is to help train students to be good people as well as good scientists. That would be my dream.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• The Georges were fair; they left all to the Government; but Anne was very bad and a tyrant. She tyrannised over the Irish. She died broken-hearted with all the bad things that were going on about her. For Queen Anne was very wicked; oh, very wicked, indeed!

  

  Lady Gregory
  • She
  • Bad
  • Government

• There's nothing better than people talking to each other, sharing best practices, and opening up communications.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Up
  • Best

• The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an "objective correlative"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Art
  • Experience
  • Words

• And what would they be scared of? There's nothing to fear in a perfect world, is there?

  

  Catherine Fisher
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Scared

• I'm a fan of people getting together.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres
  • People
  • Together

• I want to do a collaboration or some kind of side thing or some soundtrack work. Because I've been doing this for years and years. I'd like to just step out and try something different.

  

  Jon Crosby
  • Different
  • Try
  • Soundtrack

• The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments and try to bring in what your gut is telling you.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Moments
  • Try
  • Intuition