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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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 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'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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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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When I appear onstage, that's my departure from Momhood - and I transform into Natalie MacMaster: the entertainer, the fiddler, the performer.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
