Patricia McBride Quotes
I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad.
Quotes to Explore
-
Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
-
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
-
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
-
I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
-
Generally I can sleep any time, anywhere, any place, unless I'm anxious about work. I can get performance anxiety, so when I'm on tour it can be hard to sleep.
-
Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
-
Another occupation might have been better.
-
Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
-
The only people who never fail are those who never try.
-
I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.
-
Women are not all single-issue voters.
-
'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
-
I worked with HBO on 'Recount,' and we had a wonderful experience together. I'm such a fan of HBO and how much flexibility they give in character as well as schedule.
-
I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
-
I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.
-
Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
-
We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
-
If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.
-
If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
-
Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.
-
The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
-
We have picked up people full of worms from the streets, cared for them and let them die in peace and love. When they are brought to our home, they feel they are in their own homes, with their own families. Now, I am trying to open a house for AIDS victims here (in Delhi). The people are dying because of it.
-
I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
-
I want to be happy, to look back and feel I danced well at the end of my career and didn't dwindle off. It would be too sad.
