Patricia Richardson Quotes

It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

Patricia Richardson

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• I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Film
  • Fire
  • Did

• My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• I'm not convinced about marriage. Divorce is so easy, and that fact that gay people are not allowed to marry takes much of the meaning out of it. Committing yourself to one person is sacred.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Gay

• I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Music
  • Like
  • Dance

• When all are wrong, everyone is right.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Right
  • Wrong
  • Everyone

• My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Change

• When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Right
  • Duty
  • Romanticism

• When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.

  

  Gail Parent
  • Friends
  • Conversation
  • Open

• I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • People
  • Technology
  • Computers

• I would say my career is in a very good place. I'm in a place of a lot of hope for what's next. I see something great, but I'm not quite there.

  

  Fortune Feimster
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Up
  • Important
  • Family

• People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.

  

  Oliver Evans
  • People
  • See
  • Eat

• I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Love
  • Wish

• All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Together
  • Dream
  • Dreams

• When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Film
  • Act

• I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Youth

• In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • Problem
  • Suffering

• When the written and spoken word is censored, the urban landscape becomes a nation's only physical link to the past.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Past
  • Nation
  • Landscape

• Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Why

• As much as I love Antonioni films, I love the Three Stooges.

  

  Joe Carnahan

• An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Fire

• I am focused on what needs to be done for the people of Israel. Period. I do not pity myself and I do not pat myself on the shoulder. I get up in the morning full of energy to fulfill my mission.

  

  Ehud Olmert
  • People
  • Up
  • Done

• It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these instant decisions have to be made about how you balance out the time and attention between them.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Balance