Patricia Polacco Quotes
My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
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I guess I hadn't counted on 'The Unblackening' happening to my time slot as well.
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Well, I've been in several films including documentaries, but the big blockbuster, I was hired as advisor to the actors, I was trying to make Jesuits out of them.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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Competition is good and has served us well.
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In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.
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I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.
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Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.
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Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.
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Well you can be the son of a Marxist and not necessarily be a Marxist in all your views.
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I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.
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We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.
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Well, I don't want to become a prognosticator.
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I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.
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I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.
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Anything I do, I want to do it well.
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Getting a record deal is a meaningless thing now.
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It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.
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My work makes people understand things in a visual way that I could never understand in a literal way - like the way you deal with and break down problems, and don't come up with answers, but find a pathway that becomes clearer.
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I have on my wall right now a front page of the 'Journal' from January 1991, when I co-wrote a front-page story about Iraq firing missiles at Israel. By October, I was writing about tech products.
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Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
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There is something very strange and unsettling for me about making a work that doesn't fit with what's the norm or what's acceptable. There's something both liberating about it and challenging. I can imagine it doing more harm than good.
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My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
