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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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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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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When I was a boy, my older brothers listened to Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool and the Gang. When I would try to get into their room, they would close the door and say, 'You can't hear that. It's not for a child!' Now, I can listen to it and enjoy it.
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My films are about ideals that clash with the world. Every time it's a man in the lead, they have forgotten about the ideals. And every time it's a woman in the lead, they take the ideals all the way.
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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
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I try genuinely, when I'm playing a character, to not judge them and just to inhabit someone as how one sees them. That being said, you also want to make sure that you don't blur the edges of people too much because humans are naughty and complicated beings.
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It's obviously a learning experience for the governor, but it's also a chance for the DOD to learn how the state corrections facilities are run. It's an opportunity for them to learn how we run our prison system.
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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.
