Patricia McBride Quotes
The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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I feel like I have lived all over the world since I get to go everywhere to film.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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I've been described as a smart actor because I've attended college. Or I've been called an artsy jock. And I am thinking, 'So, are actors supposed to be dumb?'
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I'm regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They're the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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I have learnt that I am me, that I can do the things that, as one might put it, me can do, but I cannot do the things that me would like to do.
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Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
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For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.
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I think I'm very old-fashioned.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
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I feel like in my music I can be a rebel. I can say things I wouldn't say in real life.
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For 'Chapters', I decided to let go of my insecurities, found myself some talented R&B producers, and worked with them.
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You are a living mockery of your own ideals. If not, you have set your ideals too low.
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The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
