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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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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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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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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If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique.
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I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
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I feel like I should be more in touch with the nuances of this game.
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The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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These days when you say 'videogame', people think of immersive games that take over your life and require three thumbs to control. My goal is to create games that almost retreat into the background. I'm interested in bringing them back to their role as a social facilitator, the way party games help people to interact.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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The Beatles were so big that it's hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.
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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.
