Patricia Highsmith Quotes

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

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• For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Woman

• I know every politician spins the truth a little.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Politician

• There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Men
  • Age
  • Knowledge

• When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Life
  • Myself
  • My Life

• Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Play

• Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Way
  • Never
  • Feel

• Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Days
  • Straight
  • Seventeen

• I believe in books that do not go to a ready-made public. I'm looking for readers I would like to make. To win them, to create readers rather than to give something that readers are expecting. That would bore me to death.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Believe
  • Death
  • Win

• The Secretary of the State at the time was James Baker, who had also been Secretary of Treasury and White House Chief of Staff: very powerful guy. And I went to see him in his very ornate office at the State Department to say I wasn't going to cover him anymore. It was just a courtesy call.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Time
  • Guy
  • House

• Well, here's what I think. I mean, the people are saying, 'We don't want it,' and the Democrats are saying, 'We don't care. We're going to pass it anyway.' And so for the next three months, Washington will be consumed with the Democrats trying to jam this through in a very messy procedure an unpopular health care bill.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Trying
  • Health

• There are so many different camps about what being gay means. The danger comes when each one is so rigid that it sees itself as the true picture.

  

  Dan Butler
  • Different
  • True
  • Picture

• I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Background

• There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • World
  • Good
  • Men

• Your memories from your early childhood seem to have such purchase on your emotions. They are so concrete.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Childhood
  • Memories
  • Early

• The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
  • Family
  • School

• I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Attention
  • Student
  • Paid

• The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Future
  • Myself

• I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Man

• For me, the family is more important, of course! I don't want to change my family, or situation, for work. But I think it is possible for these things not to fight each other.

  

  Paz Vega
  • Work
  • Important
  • Family

• I don't think being a star has ever been part of the plan. But I always want to do really good work, even when I made career moves with projects that made more sense in sort of a career way than in an artistic way... like I did with 'The Darkest Hour.'

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Good
  • Work
  • Career

• Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe.

  

  P. D. James
  • Live
  • Universe
  • Moral

• Living is Easy with Eyes Closed.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Eyes
  • Easy
  • Living

• I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
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