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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I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big movies.
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My dad got me hooked on the news. That was a good thing.
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We did a different show every night. We'd open a show, and then two weeks later we'd open the next show. And two weeks later we'd open the third show until we had all eight running. And it was just one of the richest experiences I'd ever had in my theatrical life.
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I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.
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After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.
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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.
