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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I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
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Hard work. Well, that=s all right for people who don=t know how to do anything else. It=s all right for people who aren=t lucky. But once you==re lucky, you don=t have to work for other people. You make them work for you.
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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.
