Pat Quinn Quotes
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The medication I had to take was a form of chemotherapy. You feel like death every day. No appetite. No energy. But the treatment worked. It cured my liver 80 per cent but compromised my kidneys.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it will endure wear and tear.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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I'm not as tech savvy as some YouTubers, but I'm a lot better than my grandparents. Whenever I have a technical question, or something isn't working, I ask Google, and that usually throws up the answer.
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The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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In the best material, you always should be able to somehow make a case for a story to be transposed to any other time.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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Any time you challenge a big powerful person or special interest, there's going to be blowback.
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There are no more excuses for leaving women out of the inner circles of power. Qualified women are everywhere. Women are ready for leadership; they just need to be identified and asked.
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
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Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.
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Whatever you do to the animals, you do to yourself. Remember that.
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It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart.
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We had a lot of guys who wanted to play easy.
