Patricia Clarkson Quotes
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Sundance is going to be a defining moment in my life. But the unfortunate thing about Sundance is, when you have a film there, you can't have the opportunity to see other films.
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There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.
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Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
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I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.
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The 21st Century has begun as an era of uncertainty, with a heightened focus on security and public safety.
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I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.
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Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.
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When I went to school, it was really just to immerse myself in listening to, studying, and making music.
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Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over subject in the world, and that was why it appealed to me, because I wanted to do something really new and different about something that had been worked over all these centuries, and I think I did.
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We all need some TLC and to pat ourselves on the back from time to time.
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I want tragic and poetic forever! That's how I want to live every day.
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If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn't mean that your work is not accessible. It doesn't worry me, but, of course, I would be pleased if people liked my work.
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The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
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I had no interest in high school besides art.
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You've got to make it a good example for those kids regardless of how much you mess up.
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Every day, you're only as good as your last show.
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I do love nothing in the world so well as you – is not that strange?
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I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.
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I have this board in my house that lists out all the things that I love about myself. It's a board of affirmations, and it serves me well.
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My first encounter with computers was in 1968 as a Freshman engineering student at the University of Michigan, taking a required Fortran IV class.
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Well did graduate summa cum laude from Fordham University.