Patricia Polacco Quotes
Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
Quotes to Explore
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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I felt pressure to follow in Madonna's footsteps, and I didn't want to base my career on sex. So I began to change how I saw myself.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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You don't want to meet anybody in Cannes. It's the worst place, I think, to meet somebody - one of the worst places.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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I've often said that there's no one thing that I do or have done that is particularly unique. There have been a lot of other authors who were in the military. There have been a few others who were pilots. There have certainly been a lot of other people who were in politics or served congressional staffs.
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Suggesting a married Jesus is one thing, but questioning the Resurrection undermines the very heart of Christian belief.
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Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's what I like. When I first started fighting, I was working two jobs, and I was still going to school at the same time while training. I'm meant to be a busy person.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like - that's a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.
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I'm not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy.
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There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.
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I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?
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When I find too many puzzles about the way explanations are given about why there is inequality - why people who work the hardest in the world end up being the poorest - I can't just sit back and not try to understand why the gaps between people are increasing, or why there are so many homeless and hungry people in the world.
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Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
