Eileen Myles Quotes
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I'm very passionate about my two Dobermans, Stella and Mr Jonty. I go on and on and on about them, and people have to tell me to shut up before I get out pictures of them.
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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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I met Bon Jovi on the way to Washington, D.C. I think I called him Jon Jovi. Ugghhhh. I just smiled and pretended it didn't happen. I love him and his wife; they're so sweet. I was very nervous.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
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For me, the idea of curating can be expanded. Curating science, curating art, music and theater and performance and not only bring those things into art but bring art into those areas.
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Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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Education and health were always matters of charity. You educated children and you helped the sick because they were good things to do, not because you were going to make money out of them. If you let the money-making principle, the profit-seeking motive, anywhere near education and health, things go bad.
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Cancer has pizzazz, box office and glamour, and in actual dollars and prestige, even heart and mental can't hold a candle to it. It's a health dodge with a future and everybody who's anybody is jumping in.
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I'm not against wealth; I just think everybody should have it, same as health.
