Patricia Richardson Quotes
Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.
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To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can't.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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Most of the people nowadays send their things by internet. But I cannot work that way. I like to do it myself.
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People think that I have this wonderful hourglass figure, but I owe that to designer Tadashi Shoji because he cuts for me really well.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I wouldn't be who I am without my husband, who handled the business end of Donna Karan so I could be creative.
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You need to agree with your boss about what you need to get done that week, what are the metrics of success. Sometimes you need more hours, sometimes you need fewer hours.
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Success is never on discount! Greatness is never on sale! Greatness is never half off! It's all or nothing! It's all day, every day! Greatness is never on discount!
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I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?
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I wanted to be able to move quickly, to react and respond efficiently, and to change the culture so that we can adapt to everything that is thrown at us, much of which is often well outside of our control.
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Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.
