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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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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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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I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.
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It is the destiny of the emigrant that the foreign land does not become his homeland: his homeland becomes foreign.
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If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.
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Queens perhaps perform better in the role of monarch because they never take their position for granted. Many kings have failed because they believed that the public would love them whatever they did. Queens knew better.
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When you're a star, critics can't make or break you.
