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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Paul McCartney and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what.
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I'd never put all my chips anywhere, because I don't want to close any doors, but I was raised in a very blue-collar family. I was raised by parents who said, 'If you don't go to work every day, you're not contributing', so that's my mentality. I have to work every day; I have to bring home a paycheck.
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The heterosexuality or homosexuality of many individuals is not an all-or-none proposition.
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Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation.
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There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and I made my first frame, and I forgot to focus the camera. The second frame was a little more in focus... then just for a second, while everything was open, the busboy looked up, and he had this look in his eye. I made that picture, and then suddenly the whole situation closed in again. And it became bedlam.(On the 1968 shooting of U.S. presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy.)
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My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
