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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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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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'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.
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Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.
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Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
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I get to work with great photographers, wear lovely clothes, be part of the creative process.
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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
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When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
