Patricia Clarkson Quotes

But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

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• On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Space

• Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Job
  • Stop
  • Learning

• It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Democracy
  • Now
  • Imperialism

• 'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

  

  Ugo Betti
  • Man
  • Idea
  • Mad

• I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • War
  • Want
  • Best

• I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Music
  • Pretty
  • Proud

• I just look at what's going on in the world.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • World
  • Look
  • Just

• I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is 28 years in an obscure art school, with limited staff and no perks. All I am is a teacher.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • School
  • Art
  • Business

• Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Why

• For most inhabitants of the Arab world, the prevailing cultural attitude toward women - fed and encouraged by Wahhabi doctrine, which is based on Bedouin social norms rather than Islamic jurisprudence - often trumps the rights accorded to women by Islam.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • World
  • Women
  • Attitude

• The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Power
  • Alone
  • Will

• Few things are more enjoyable than lingering over the atlas and plotting a trip.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • More
  • Over
  • Atlas

• Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

  

  Earle Brown
  • Music
  • Control
  • Beginning

• A big part of my life is music education because it changed my life - but arts, academics and athletics should all be equally treated in the school.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Life
  • Music
  • School

• My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • Military
  • Background
  • My Own

• Every role is easy. As an actor it is my job to make my job easy. If I start hyperventilating about my roles, then how will I do it? So, with all my roles, somewhere I feel comfortable about them, and that is why I play them.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Why
  • Job
  • Easy

• A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

  

  Lara St. John
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• In adversity, there is opportunity. Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity. I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. Adversity is another way to measure the greatness of individuals. I never had a crisis that didn't make me stronger.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Done
  • Opportunity
  • Greatness

• A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights, are the aims of Scientology.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • War
  • Free
  • Insanity

• It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Nice
  • Enjoy
  • Quiet

• It is a fundamental principle of criminal law that an imputed offense must correspond exactly to the type of crime described by law. If no law applies exactly to the point in question, then there is no offense.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Law
  • Question
  • Crime

• I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.

  

  Elaine Stritch
  • Great
  • Wise

• But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Nice
  • Successful
  • Odds