Patricia Sun Quotes
The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
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I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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I think Australian food is probably some of the best in the world.
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If the 'Post' can play the role of a connector between the West and the East, I have confidence in the paper's future success.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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You can over-think things. If the script's good, everything you need is in there. I just try and feel it and do it honestly. I also don't learn things for auditions, because I feel like it's just a test of memorising rather than being real.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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As to which is cuter, a puppy or a baby, I'm going to say that probably depends less on the particular puppy and more on the baby. I've seen pictures of me as an infant and consider myself lucky that nobody ever offered my parents the opportunity to trade me for a beagle.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.
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As soon as I began to earn what might be called fairly large sums, I bought a car and began to explore the country around New York.
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re: Abraham Lincoln. 'For whatever reason, and I can't explain why - that moment at which one is drawn into the orbit, irrevocably, of a life. I felt the tug of that orbit. I didn't know why; I was quite alarmed by it...'
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
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The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out. To have genuine empathy, not as a make-nice tool but as an understanding, is essential to the next step.
