Patricia Polacco Quotes
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I love boxing. I box in a local boxing gym in London. I usually spar. But I've done two fights and I lost both of them admirably. I didn't realize how much it would hurt for them to actually hit me.
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I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
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I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
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I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to.
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This shared love of cooking and celebration has allowed me to create a strong bond with my family.
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When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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There are no rules when it comes to love.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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Women talk about love and silent about lovers, men - on the contrary: Speaking of mistresses, but are silent about love.
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I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.
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Every human being has a bit of gangster in him.
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I don't only long for the thrill of being in the middle of a war, I must understand it; I must make other people understand.
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I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
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My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.
