Patricia Arquette Quotes
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I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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But with nonfiction, the task is very straightforward: Do the research, tell the story.
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I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
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I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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I love the way soft white cheese such as ricotta or the creamier mascarpone reflect the milieu in which an animal has been raised.
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My fans are so loving and encouraging. They're with me on good days and bad days.
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When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.
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India has to be transformed into a developed nation, a prosperous nation and a healthy nation, with a value system.
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I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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Prosecutors and public defenders deserve to make a living wage.
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I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!
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I'd be lying if I said I never think about my female fans in certain shots and certain scenes. Like, when I'm topless, I might think: 'This one is for the ladies.'
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We all have our own little thing, I think.
