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.
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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.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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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.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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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.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.
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I just look at what's going on in the world.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
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I didn't go to drama school, so I didn't really have many true friends in the business; 'Game Of Thrones' has definitely brought me that.
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I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
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I don't understand people whose gratification is a BMW. You don't know what joy is until you see a kid who was tortured get adopted by a family.
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But no, had I been successful in my 20s I would have been just fine. But it is nice to defy the odds.
