Patricia Clarkson Quotes
The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I discovered what it meant to 'live for Christ,' and that it honestly was something I wanted to do. The facts were there, and I could sense the Holy Spirit at work.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.
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I think I fail a bit less than everyone else.
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It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
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Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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I was not very keen on joining the family business... there were 14 family members working together, and it worried me that I would not have enough individuality.
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I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.
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The odds are not in your favor the older you get, especially if you're a woman in this business.
