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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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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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'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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The military is a place of discipline, technical proficiency, and personal sacrifice for the greater good.
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The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
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I don't think there's a lot of dispute for this. You can argue that we didn't get everything done that we wanted to get done, but I can make a really strong argument, and I think prove, that by almost every measure the country's better off now than when I started.
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
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Forget market or publishers or whatever. Just write with fire and joy, and in my own experience, those are the stories of mine people have wanted to read.
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To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
