Patrick Swayze Quotes
Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.
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But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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I want to be a female artist who is honest. I want to encourage other girls to be honest with who they are and not try to be picture perfect, because it's a woman's imperfections that make her perfect anyway.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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Doing 'Prometheus' was what you imagine being an actor is like when you're five. In a spacesuit, on another planet, getting killed by an alien. It was a real treat; it felt like being a part of movie history.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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I was in my early 30s, and I longed for real friendships and real relationships, and I started asking myself why I didn't have that. I had a couple of male friends, but every time I would hang out with them, it felt like there was something keeping us apart.
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Money scares me, and it always has done. I've got a childish concept of money, and I like to keep it that way in the sense that I don't like to think about it.
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I've made several films that haven't been shown.
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It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
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Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
