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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I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.
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If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.
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We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?
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I like to dress up every day, so I think fashion is an everyday process.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.
