Patricia Clarkson Quotes
The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.
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I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.
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I'm not politically correct.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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It's all about Jesus.
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What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
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When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
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That joy of a creative environment, without any restrictions, is hard to leave.
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The majority of work I do is in independent films, where you're lucky if you have five takes.
