[His star professes a lifelong interest in the subject matter dating back to Catholic grade school.] But when I read the script, ... I thought, 'Oh, my gosh. Well, this isn't nice stigmata like I thought stigmata was going to be -- angel sounds. All pretty.'


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PATRICIA RICHARDSON
I live in such a sweet world in the world of 'Home Improvement' that I tend to be drawn to s...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON
I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON
I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the &#...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON
Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON
But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON
The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scatte...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON
Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whol...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON
Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON
A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one fami...
PATRICIA RAE
One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace...
PATRICIA RAE
You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into yo...
PATRICIA RAE
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!
PATRICIA POLACCO
My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would ...
PATRICIA POLACCO
I don't believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of ...
PATRICIA POLACCO
I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see won...
PATRICIA POLACCO
I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
PATRICIA POLACCO
I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandpare...
PATRICIA POLACCO
I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books...
PATRICIA POLACCO
Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist.
PATRICIA POLACCO
My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relat...
PATRICIA POLACCO
Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergart...
PATRICIA POLACCO
When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
PATRICIA POLACCO
My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.
PATRICIA POLACCO
My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
PATRICIA POLACCO
When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always sur...
PATRICIA POLACCO
I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it...
PATRICIA POLACCO
Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
PATRICIA POLACCO
Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to o...
PATRICIA POLACCO
I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare ...
PATRICIA POLACCO
What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and ...
PATRICIA POLACCO
I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most he...
PATRICIA POLACCO
My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o...
PATRICIA POLACCO
I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in ha...
PATRICIA POLACCO
I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish livin...
PATRICIA POLACCO
Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
PATRICIA POLACCO
Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
PATRICIA NORRIS
I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're ha...
PATRICIA NORRIS
As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and ...
PATRICIA NORRIS
When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. W...
PATRICIA NEAL
I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
PATRICIA NEAL
Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gatew...
PATRICIA MILLETT
What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom...
PATRICIA MILLETT
I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivi...
PATRICIA MILLETT
I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court withou...
PATRICIA MILLETT
I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and...
PATRICIA MILLETT
While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity wi...
PATRICIA MILLETT
I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of revie...
PATRICIA MILLETT
My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into ...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK