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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Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that.
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With actors like Steve McQueen, Paul Newman and Harrison Ford, what made them such icons is that even in dramatic movies, their characters had a sense of humor.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing.
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The modern joint stock firm is the outcome of innumerable decisions made by individual entrepreneurs, owners and managers. For these decision makers the choices among alternatives were limited and the outcomes uncertain, but almost always there were choices. Despite the variability of these individual decisions, taken cumulatively they produced clear patterns of institutional change
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See, the SAG awards caught me totally by surprise.
