Patricia Clarkson Quotes
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.
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No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
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I went to this one in Ohio, and then I became a counselor there, and it was just the most fun thing. I was so depressed when I came home from camp.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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The U.S. should worry about the effects of its polices on the rest of the world. We would like to live in a world where countries take into account the effect of their policies on other countries and do what is right, broadly, rather than what is just right given the circumstances of that country.
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I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
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I love to sing random stuff. That's exciting for me.
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People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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I may discuss love, and I don't mind if two men fall in love, fine. Two women, fine. But I flinch when I think of two Jewish women getting together and having a child because the idea of having two Jewish mothers makes my head explode. I have one; I couldn't handle two.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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We're going to need to absorb some pain. The Republicans want to pile all the pain on people who can least afford it and the middle class and Democrats under his leadership want to make sure that we can address deficit reduction and continue to make investments and shared sacrifice is going to be imperative in order to be able to do that.
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Before me, there were no moonsaults, there were no Litacanranas!
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I always know when my agents have good news for me because they conference call me.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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I have to watch the news or my day is not complete.
