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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I really use social media to keep up with what's happening.
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
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You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term entitlement spending in the country, but you can't out of one side of your mouth say, 'Yes, we're for tax cuts, we're for spending discipline, and we're for bringing down the debt.'
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I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.
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There are all sorts of ways you can take somebody's identity or change your own, and a million things you can do with it once you have. It's quite incredible.
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I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.
