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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The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.
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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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I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
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I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!
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If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.
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When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, helps others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.
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Medicine men live in caves.
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I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.
