Patricia Clarkson Quotes
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Fashion and interior design are one and the same.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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I just write what I think is funny. I don't care who watches it.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I'd love to do a movie like 'Bullitt.'
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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We needs must love the highest when we see it.
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I like to control everything, and you cannot control everything. You have to at some point say, 'I let go and I'm going to let the cards fall where they fall... For a control freak, it's hard.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
