Patty Loveless Quotes
I've had a wonderful career and shared the stage with Vince Gill, who was my second love.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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I'm interested in taking raw human emotions and then isolating them without any narrative structure. In order to achieve this, I try to break out of the narrative conventions that you'd see in a typical feature film.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.
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The falsification of scientific data or analysis is always a serious matter.
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Startups on the inside are always badly broken.
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about.
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Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.
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Have character; don't be a character.
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For my whole career, I've been a singer-slash-songwriter, even though I'm very thankfully known for my voice. Songwriting has always been a joy in my life, and to be recognized for it is extremely validating.
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I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
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Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends.
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I've had a wonderful career and shared the stage with Vince Gill, who was my second love.
