Patricia Highsmith Quotes
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
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The Temptations still stand today, not in spite of those who left us, but because of them.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.
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I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
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Never count on the crowd to take care of you.
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I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.
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I think it's a pity that in many people's minds constitutional reform and PR have come to mean much the same thing.
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YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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I'm a fast writer.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
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Nothing happens for almost eight minutes and it still holds your attention.
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You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some direct route back to Jonathan. But I love him to death. He's like my best friend and my big brother.
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What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
