Candice Patton Quotes

When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

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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.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Child

• We are asleep with compasses in our hands.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Hands
  • Our
  • Asleep

• 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.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Money
  • Why
  • Job

• A great painting is a great painting.

  

  Larry Poons
  • Great
  • Painting

• For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Career
  • Most
  • Other

• Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Character
  • Jesus
  • Stand

• We had particular policies in this country that resulted in the larger share of poverty that we have in African-American communities.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • American
  • Poverty

• In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Work
  • Hope
  • You

• 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.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • People
  • Book
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Energy
  • Experiences
  • Female

• Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Hate
  • Me
  • Very

• I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • People
  • Feel
  • Alien

• If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • God
  • Religion
  • Insult

• Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

  

  Paavo Nurmi
  • Mind
  • Being
  • Muscle

• If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Women
  • Done
  • Bridges

• 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.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Never
  • Conscience
  • Release

• 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.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • World
  • Religious
  • Vision

• I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.

  

  Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
  • Hip Hop
  • Chris
  • Martin

• Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

  

  Kate Mosse
  • I Can
  • Train
  • Bed

• I'm doing this play right now, the new David Mamet play. It's called 'Race,' and it's very interesting how people really leave the theater filled with the desire to talk about the play and the issues and the characters, and how they're all navigating their personal views around race.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Desire

• We have travelled far from the standpoint which identifies the real with the concrete. Even the older philosophy found it necessary to admit exceptions; for example, time must be admitted to be real, although no one could attribute to it a concrete nature.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Time
  • Real
  • Nature

• The only thing worse than a coach or CEO who doesn't care about his people is one who pretends to care. People can spot a phony every time.

  

  Jimmy Johnson
  • People
  • Time

• I bring a record home, and it connects with me like nothing else. In my ideal situation, somebody will do that with my record.

  

  Jeff Mangum
  • Home

• When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Time
  • Character
  • You