Patricia Highsmith Quotes
I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
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Mum and Dad were very much friends and up for life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up; they just taught me to be me.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
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Well, I think the world changes around you - I think you don't change. That's as simple as that.
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This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
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There are people who, if they see something in couture that they perceive as ready-to-wear, they're in shock.
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I believe in operating in the big middle of the electorate and not being to the far right or the far left. I think you get so much more done.
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Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.
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This haunting idea of becoming a celebrity doesn't settle well with me at all.
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I gave a Christmas party last year - well, two Christmases ago - where I did a Sam Cooke show. I didn't perform as R. Kelly. I performed the Sam Cooke show from 1964, when he performed at the Copacabana.
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Through PETA, we rescue animals in roadside zoos and circuses. They are some of the most abused animals in the country.
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My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.
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There are different people who got me into music, but what I liked about Beethoven is that even when I didn't understand it or it was too long, there's still something about it that drove me to it. Then it got me excited about actually learning music, like a theory of it.
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Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
