Patricia McBride Quotes
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If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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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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You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write 'Sometimes When We Touch.' But then what happens when you've been married for 25 years? You can't rely on those emotional male-female roller coasters. You have to start using your imagination and the powers of empathy more.
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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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The performance of international institutions will be symptomatic of the domestic political priorities of influential member states. International institutions don't really have a life and a mind of their own.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
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Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.
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I can't control what goes on; that's not my responsibility. My responsibility is to go play football. ... I take it as a low blow. I had to work. It wasn't handed to me, I had to get out and grind. It's a golden opportunity [to prove people wrong].
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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You have to trust that the script is right and be comfortable with everything, and then you just have to go for it and disregard anything you've previously heard or felt about it.
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I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
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When you're a star, critics can't make or break you.
