Patricia McBride Quotes
My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she was 2 years old, almost 3. I always wanted to have a family. I had a good example because Melissa Hayden was a ballerina in our company, and she had two children and danced afterward, and Allegra Kent also did.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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I'm still at the beginning of my career. It's all a little new, and I'm still learning as I go.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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Serving in the United States Senate has been the greatest privilege of my life.
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What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether.
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There are a few Irish writers who have a very strong influence on me, especially on the 'Take Me to Church' EP.
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For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?
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Many people have said to me, "What a pity you had such a big family to raise." "Think of the novels and the short stories and the poems you never had time to write because of that." And I looked at my children and I said, "These are my poems, these are my stories."
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My daughter arrived when I was five months pregnant with my son. We adopted Melanie from Korea; she was 2 years old, almost 3. I always wanted to have a family. I had a good example because Melissa Hayden was a ballerina in our company, and she had two children and danced afterward, and Allegra Kent also did.
