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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I wore miniskirts in the days when no fat girls should have, and with total delight.
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The federal government spends nearly half a trillion dollars on contracted goods and services; therefore, we must ensure that the money is being spent efficiently, and small businesses have proven that they can do quality work cheaper and often faster.
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The amplification of our diverse literary voices is a political act of resistance. Our lives are important, too. Our lives should be represented in our literature. And that literature is vital, compelling, and accessible. That literature deserves to be disseminated and noticed and available. And with respect to the dissemination and promotion of diverse voices - librarians, educators, and editors of literary journals play such an important role. They deserve not only a hearty shout out, but also our thanks and support.
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During my past career as a journalist, I relished writing obits and equally dreaded phoning relatives for the necessary facts. But to my surprise and great relief, they often wanted to talk - they wanted their recently deceased loved ones recorded in print.
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When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
