Candice Patton Quotes
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My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. I think that for those of us who write, when we find a wonderful book written by someone else, we don't really get jealous, we get inspired, and that's kind of the mark of what a good writer is.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
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In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.
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I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings.
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Any time we read a newspaper or take any look at the world around us, we are aware of the cruelty and violence that dominates our world.
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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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We all know that technology has advanced to the point of watching TV online.
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I'm a big fan of the digestive system.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
