Patricia Richardson Quotes
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You have to be un-comfortably comfortable in this business. There's always somebody else who wants what you have.
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Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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Well, Eminem, you know, I know him longer. Ive been signed to his label since 2001 and he's a good friend.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have to have intuition. It's an essential ingredient.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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And you also have to do movies that are about commerce because that's what is required of the industry today.
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Being a parent is about your survival. Surviving the terrible two's is the most important thing.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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All the stuff that you visualized that was going to work so beautifully, you discover is trashed, so you jump to something else.
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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
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At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.
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All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.
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Appropriate action means to advance your own goals, without unintentional harm to anyone else.
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A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.
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You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
