Candice Patton Quotes
I would love to get a role that changes the landscape of being an African American woman in television and film.
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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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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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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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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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I just tend to think about everyday things for my onstage act. Actually you know what I like to talk about just the absolute most - the more mundane the subject matter, the more interesting it is to me.
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The history of learning amounts to a history of specialization.
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Talk about sexist - have you ever, ever, heard someone come up to a woman and say 'find your masculine side?' And by the way women, if you find your masculine side - I'm not interested.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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I was crazy back then, I must admit. I had an extreme attitude.
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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.
