Candice Patton Quotes
I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
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My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.
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Following graduation from Amherst, a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship enabled me to test the depth of my interest in literary scholarship by beginning graduate studies at Harvard University.
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It's a fact that kids watch TV. But if you think back, when you watched cowboy movies, you would go out and play cowboys. TV and movies motivate people.
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There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.
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William and I feel that every child deserves to be supported through difficult times in their lives.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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My first trip to Mexico was with my dad because of his Spanish records. That was back in 1958. I found a picture of me when I was eight dressed as a little senorita.
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It would be hypocritical of me to use being female in some ways, and diss being female in other ways. It's part of the programme.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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Doing voices in animated movies has been one of my dreams. You get to go and act, and you don't have to put on makeup.
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I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
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I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.
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It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.
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It's quite a job, so to speak, when you can really be with your child for 21 out of 24 hours.
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A fantasy of mine is to do a podcast that's Marcel Marceau and I, and you only hear me laughing at him and trying to figure out what he's doing.
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In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.
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Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom.
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There's a Russia angle to all this, because remember, we don't have Donald Trump's tax returns. He did a very - relative summary, 104 page campaign financial disclosure. One year of tax returns, reportedly - we've seen the pictures, 12,000 pages. And tax returns are replete with his foreign interests, including, perhaps, his Russian interests. That may be the reason he doesn't want to turn over his taxes.
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I've written a lot of really good books. Now we'll see if I can write any more good books. I mean there's a chance I won't, but I'm going to try.
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What kind of business world are we living in?
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
