Carly Patterson Quotes
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My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.
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So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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Being in water makes me relax instantly.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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My mom helped me get started when I was younger. I started with singing. An agent saw me singing on stage at the Palm Springs Festival, and recommended I get into acting, so I was like, 'Oh, okay.' I just started from there, singing and acting.
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I always put my boxing first.
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I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.
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I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
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I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
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Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
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As a writer, I had learned a lot on 'Margin Call' about embracing the weaknesses of a narrative and of a project. A story always has an inherent narrative weakness.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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I loved my life, but my choices were overloading and overwhelming me. Listening to inner feelings and fulfilling some of these urges when they come along is incredibly important.
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I've always thought George Carlin was brilliant.
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I read Carver. Julio Cortazar. Amis's essays. Baldwin. Lorrie Moore. Capote. Saramago. Larkin. Wodehouse. Anything, anything at all, that doesn't sound like me.
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I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room.
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The majority of the Afghan people support a strategic partnership with the United States.
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Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.
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It was a real shame that the technology wasn't up to the creation that was going on with quad. It just wasn't reaching the consumer in the right way.
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I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
