Candice Patton Quotes
I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Often I pretended to a cameraman to know less than I did. That way I got more cooperation.
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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.
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The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did, but with their faith they defeated a superpower.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
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Responsible statesmen have only one choice - to do everything possible to prevent a nuclear catastrophe. Any other position is short-sighted; more so, it is suicidal.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
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In a fleshly tomb, I am buried above ground.
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I'm very grateful to have had many brilliant students and post-docs who have worked with me. Potential is often hard to spot, but a key factor is whether they express a genuine interest in the problem and how they have thought about it.
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I never buy what someone says is 'in' or a 'must-have.' I buy what makes me happy.
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I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.
