Patricia Richardson Quotes
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I think why I was attracted to making something with Vice is that level of intimacy that you get as the viewer, getting to see some of that production element where we don't exactly know what we're doing, where we're going, or even if it's a good idea.
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The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
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I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.
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I have a very intimate knowledge of the world of the mentally ill and of life inside of, especially, public hospitals and the way people are treated in there and the way that they try to survive in there.
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Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.
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I don't like stock buybacks. I think if a company has the money to buy their stock back, then they should take that and increase the dividends. Send it back to the stockholder. Let them invest their money again from the dividends.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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The stigma that was once attached to things society deemed unhealthy served the purpose of making them undesirable. With the stigma gone, many people see little reason not to do whatever feels good at the moment.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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For me, playwriting is and has always been like making a chair. Your concerns are balance, form, timing, lights, space, music. If you don't have these essentials, you might as well be writing a theoretical essay, not a play.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
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Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.
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I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.
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I have very old-fashioned tastes.
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I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.
