Patricia Highsmith Quotes
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I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
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Love should be an inspiration, not an obligation.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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My mother was the president of the PTA at every school I attended.
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Emilia Clarke has beautiful brunette hair.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural than that he should write for those who, even if they do not pay him, at least understand him?
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All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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I never knew until I came here to Hollywood that somebody could be really nice to you for years and really hate your guts. Happens all the time here.
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I have no television - I hate it.
