Patricia Ireland Quotes
I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I never really like to skate in an empty ice rink; I always need the attention of an audience.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
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For me, if I'm just killing time, I play solitaire. I'm also guilty of playing Snood. I like games where I can shoot balls and match colors.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Things said by political parties are different from the decisions of the government which are taken to uphold the rule of law. The government takes decisions that are best for the country.
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I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.
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Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
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New Directions is a reviewer’s nightmare; it’s enough punishment to read it all, without writing about it too.
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Women always find you out when you lie. Always. No matter what, they always find out. They're like detectives.
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If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.
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People will write whatever they want and make up whatever they want anyway.
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(Grief) is something you never really get over, but you put it in a place inside you and deal with it in the way you have to.
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I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.
