Patricia Ireland Quotes
Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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In sum, we took energy for granted, assuming when we flipped the switch, the lights would go on and assuming that there would always be plenty of cheap fuel for our vehicles.
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I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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I left for Petersburg in August, 1871 and stayed there until 1879.
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The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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I love action movies.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
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There are only two real ways to get ahead today - sell liquor or drink it.
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In my Spanish cloak,And old slouch hat,And overshoes of felt,And Tyke, my faithful dog,And my knotted hickory cane,I slipped about with a bull's-eye lanternFrom door to door on the square
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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As scientists I think we need to communicate, and try different things, and this was just one of those trials, and it has turned out very well.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
