Pat Barrett Quotes
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I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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I'm a rock singer, but I love soul, I love blues, and I love theatrical stuff, too, like theatrical rock like Queen and Meat Loaf.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
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I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.
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The song that's affected me the most profoundly is probably Michael Jackson's 'Thriller,' or, more specifically, the couple seconds of instrumental break before Vincent Price starts 'rapping.'
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The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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I find comedy to be really scary, because it can go so wrong so easily, and the margin for error is so huge - and I guess that's what makes it funny, that tension.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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We are from the very middle class family. We have not come from the English medium school. We came from our regional languages school.
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Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
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Film is a tool of change.
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Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them.
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I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.
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Taking a risk is always frightening, but I gave myself a set period of time and had enough money to see me through. I operated from the belief that things would be okay, that if I wasn't successful I would find myself a job, but either way, I would be fine.
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Such a wild feeling! Brand new live album called “Canvas and Clay” out now.
