Patina Miller Quotes
It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'
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I played competitive golf all my life. Then all of a sudden, when I quit playing the game, I've got all this spare time and this energy. And certainly I wasn't ready to pack up my bags and go sit in front of the television with a shawl on.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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At the most elite level, your nutrition becomes a lifestyle: it's not something you have to do when you're preparing for Olympic games or World Cup games - you just do it. You're more inclined to eat healthier because it's better for your muscles.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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My baby is the joy in my life.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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I really like Los Angeles - I had a good life out there. But the reason I choose to live in New York is because when I'm between engagements, as they say, something creative always comes up for me, like 'Julian Po,' or helping teach at NYU, or helping stage a show at Juilliard.
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Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.
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Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!
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I made history here by landing the first triple axel for a U.S. lady, third at the Olympics, and that's a big deal.
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People always make mistakes when they fancy themselves exceptions.
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I would love to someday do a play. I did one when I was very young in San Francisco, where I grew up. A girl can dream.
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It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'
