Patricia Polacco Quotes
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Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically appear that help me work through it.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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Inflicting emotional distress has typically been treated as a civil action. How 'substantial' does the distress have to be for it to turn criminal?
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Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.
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Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.
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With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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Anyone who's been through divorce will know that every day is really hard.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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My mom is from Cuba, my dad is from Spain, and I grew up in Miami. So there's maybe a little more flair in me than typical Silicon Valley types.
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I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
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Most of my stuff, I never really watch.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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There is no such thing as a perfect player; it doesn't exist.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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I was surprised when I finally moved to Boston and the East Coast, to discover that there weren't that many vibraphone players around. And I was the only one playing with four mallets.
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This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.
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The way we do music in Brazil is very different because we are so moved by music; we grow up with that.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
