Patricia Highsmith Quotes
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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I was never the girl who tore pictures out of wedding magazines.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I would like to one day play a man. That is something I do know. I don't know what kind of man. I don't know if that would ever happen or not. It would be the ultimate challenge.
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As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fairy tale is going to seem kind of attainable.
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It's better to waste money, than it is to waste time. You can always get more money.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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On paper I would be a rather bold individual in our culture.
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When people say perhaps it’s cause they’re lying. Either they don’t believe the thing they’re saying, or they do believe it only they don’t want to admit they do.
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People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.
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The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.
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I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
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I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.
