Carly Patterson Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
So many athletes who have been close to me have been everything to me.
-
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.
-
Being in water makes me relax instantly.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I always put my boxing first.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I always knew I was destined for greatness.
-
To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
-
I've always been a huge fan of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.
-
I really like the way Fox handles their shows.
-
Natural resources must be so distributed, by way of auction or otherwise, that they serve a larger public purpose.
-
Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way.
-
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.
-
The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
-
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.
-
And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm.
-
Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.
-
All of my most significant moments somehow involved music. It's like my life was a John Hughes film and somebody had to put together the perfect soundtrack.
-
What's an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesn't know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesn't admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesn't really know how much.
-
Our interpretations reveal less about God or the Bible than they do about ourselves. They reveal what we want to defend, what we want to attack, what we want to ignore, what we’re unwilling to question.
-
I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.
