Carly Patterson Quotes
Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
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I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.
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Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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In my 20s, I wanted to be hot; now I want to be healthy.
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My schedule is too overwhelmingly full to think about the future.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow.
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In certain ways, we, many of us, stopped paying attention to the world. I have to think we would have moved on the whole climate issue in a different way if we'd been paying better attention.
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It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist and they have a completely different perspective.
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The deluding passions are inexhaustible. I vow to extinguish them all. The number of beings is endless. I vow to save them all. The Truth cannot be told. I vow to explain it. The Way which cannot be followed is unattainable. I vow to attain it.
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I don't believe in one ideal beauty.
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People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.
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I'm the queen of the independent video!
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
