Patrick Rothfuss Quotes
Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone's nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn't answer. At first, kids figured they'd just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
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Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.
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I am followed in department stores. I have walked in dressed professionally or dressed in jeans, and I have walked into stores, and instantly, security is on my back.
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I'm marriable. But I'm not married.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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If there's 'game' in the title, I'm there! Ready to play!
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Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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We have a lot of supergeniuses in the Marvel universe, but very few of them are women.
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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success.
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My eye is ever on those who love me.
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You can't really plan for how that training session or competition is going to go. You have to see what your horse is giving you to work with, and then you tailor all your training around that.
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Mind your till, and till your mind.
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Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
