Patricia Ireland Quotes
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.
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I'm not an actress; I'm not a professional testifier.
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From a spinner's perspective, in India it was never easy for me to judge where to stand: how far forward, how far back, because on Indian wickets the ball does not carry as much as abroad. That is true of slip fielding in general. I wouldn't say only for spinner – even for a fast bowler, that holds true.
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
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When we were making KONG, I went into the sound room and made an aria of horror sounds. I was in charge of it; there was no one there to listen to me. I was totally in charge of what I wanted to do.
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I couldn't really take a girl from Berlin to live in Leeds. I love it here. I miss the Yorkshire sense of humor and things like bitter and Yorkshire puddings, but I can still get my hands on salt 'n' vinegar crisps.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, 'You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else.' Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted it.
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Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?
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Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.
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To please God… to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness… to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is.
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I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.
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Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.