Patricia McBride Quotes
I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
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When I became proficient as a salesman I was invited to teach new hires.
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My first vocation was dance.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.
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Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?
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The only thing I've kind of missed is finding a really good western that I want to do, because I watched westerns a lot.
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Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
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Rock was always part of my heart and soul. But the times just changed and everybody wanted to dance.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.
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I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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I wouldn't want a manicure. I'm a man's man!
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After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.
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I teach well. I used to really like teaching a lot. I enjoyed it a lot and I was good at it.
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History isn't just the story of bad people doing bad things. It's quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
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Don't date the captain of the football team; be the captain of the football team.
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Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.
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If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they strew in their tracks; and how, while they marched on with tread of iron and plumes proudly tossing in the breeze, some one must follow closely in their steps, crouching to the earth, toiling in the rain and darkness, shelterless themselves, with no thought of pride or glory, fame or praise, or reward; hearts breaking with pity, faces bathed in tears and hands in blood. This is the side which history never shows.
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I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.
