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A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.


Patti LaBelle

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MORIHEI UESHIBA For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
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PATTI LABELLE They were wrapped up in blankets. They couldn't clap.
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PATTI DAVIS In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Ar...
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PATTI HOCH For our relays, I was looking at the times they are swimming and comparing them to last year, and I ...
PATTI HOCH For all my seniors, we've been mainly focusing on how we are going into the sectional. Everybody has...
PATTI HOCH Oh, he's just trying to get an easier practice.
PATTI HOCH We have good swimmers, but we go in down nine, eight or seven points before the meet even starts. Th...
PATTI HOCH I appreciate what those guys are doing out there. I don't know anything about diving because my back...
PATTI HOCH In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, b...
PATTI LUPONE Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we gro...
PATTI STANGER The rich are different. Their wants are very high maintenance. They'll pick eye color and hair c...
PATTI STANGER Music television is all about the media-oriented version of what it is to be a rock star; it's n...
PATTI SMITH What I wanted to do in rock 'n roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who h...
PATTI SMITH Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to ...
PATTI LUPONE To me, Ann Romney sounds like a better candidate than her husband. She put her MS into remission thr...
PATTI DAVIS Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and...
PATTI SMITH I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't m...
PATTI SMITH Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opport...
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