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Patricia C. Wrede

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YOU'VE GOT MAIL Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I...
IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson...
IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
IF I WAKE Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER Surely, if we can land a spaceship on Mars, we can certainly put a voter ID card in the hand of ever...
ANDREW YOUNG A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will nev...
ALBERT CAMUS I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
OSCAR WILDE Considering my upbringing and what I saw around me everyday, I can't deny that I didn't have some ki...
ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means ...
PATRICIA C. WREDE Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!
PATRICIA C. WREDE Is it your background, then?" Lord Franton smiled and shook his head. "That need not worry you. You'...
PATRICIA C. WREDE The King and Queen did the best they could. They hired the most superior tutors and governesses to t...
PATRICIA C. WREDE I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I...
PATRICIA C. WREDE (In reply to the question, 'Would you like some suggestions for a plot for your next book?')
PATRICIA C. WREDE Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who...
PATRICIA C. WREDE Mendanbar took a deep breath. “You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me.” This wasn�...
PATRICIA C. WREDE That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.
PATRICIA C. WREDE Well, it doesn't sound particularly noble and knightly to say you've rescued the Chief Cook and Libr...
PATRICIA C. WREDE Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
PATRICIA C. WREDE Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own...
PATRICIA C. WREDE She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh.
PATRICIA C. WREDE Luck certainly had a hand in my good fortune. I can't deny that. But it came down to more than l...
ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI ID can be hijacked, and cards can be faked. All of the 9/11 terrorists had fake IDs, yet they still ...
BRUCE SCHNEIER I'd be lying if I said I wasn't thinking about it a bit.
JASON SPEZZA Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential.
STEVE MARABOLI If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.
HELEN HUNT JACKSON Of course, I say all the time my personal best is what I am in this for. No matter if I won, it's if...
SASHA COHEN I would be lying if I said I did not feel bad when 'Shamitabh' failed, but I was proud to be...
DHANUSH I'm not a grudge-bearer. If the people vote for Measure C, I can be Mike's ally again.
MARILYN GOODE Man can certainly keep on lying... but he cannot make truth falsehood. He can certainly rebel... but...
KARL BARTH I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it.
BILLY CARTER A story about... I play a guy who is with... Patricia Arquette is my wife and we're having troubles....
BILL PULLMAN Certainly I find it most interesting to play a role that I can invent from nothing.
BRENT SPINER A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be any...
ALBERT CAMUS A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be any...
ALBERT CAMUS Of course the new version of the ID card should have our traditional name on it, and the household c...
MAYAW BIHO I'd be lying if I said it didn't affect me. I definitely felt a little uncomfortable.
KYLE LOHSE Cease to think of an impossibility and you will seize an opportunity for productivity. Excellence co...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, ...
MIEP GIES I'd be lying if I said I didn't want you
I'd be lying if I said I didn't wish you were mine
JUSTIN WETCH I certainly think it would. It certainly appears to be very affordable. It is a portable type insura...
ALLEN NEWTON If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
CARLISLE FLOYD If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
DEYTH BANGER A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be any...
ALBERT CAMUS If I said that I couldn't live without Tom, it wouldn't be true. Of course I can live without him. I...
ANNA MAXTED If I paid less attention to details, Id trust easier.
KEYSHMA.SOSA When that light went on, if you didn't notice it, he certainly did. I would be surprised if John is ...
CHUCK COOPER If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.
GAYLE FORMAN I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter
GAYLE FORMAN I don't know if I would bet on it, but certainly one can hope.
RICHARD KESSLER I don't know if it is. Strike that. It was certainly one of the biggest victories in front of the mo...
BRUCE PEARL While I can't walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.
ASHWIN SANGHI If I can make a dollar, I certainly am not stupid.
CAITLYN JENNER I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON I did it again. Lying guilty in a hotel room for a woman I will fail for.
J.M. AUGUST Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If i...
HENRY MILLER he kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered ...
GAYLE FORMAN I think, certainly when some of that flies off, particularly on the highway, that can certainly be a...
MARK LEONARD Only when I quit lying to myself did I discover the real beauty of my truth.
SCOTT STABILE I would be lying if I told you I wasn't disappointed because I really wanted to be in the top five a...
JACQUE BARTOW I can deny that categorically.
WILLIAM BROWNFIELD Those who disbelieve think that they shall never be raised. Say: Aye! by my Lord! you shall most cer...
QURAN They asked if we knew anybody who had a nipple ring. I said that my brother did. I got his ID out of...
RINDA JEAN WILCOX It's uplifting, ... Certainly if they can do it, I can do it. We've still got a lot of game. You nev...
MARK CALCAVECCHIA I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and...
VINCENT GALLO I'm going to look into it, because, in my view, it's forgery, wire fraud and apparently committed on...
BERTRAM FIELDS Of course we do, ... I know that it is going to be difficult, but we are by no means out of it. Our ...
DENNIS SETZER If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you will most certainly be right.
STEVE JOBS I did learn that there's no point in eating too much Vitamin C because it comes out of your blad...
KUNAL NAYYAR In my case, if I didn't think a book was important to a student to navigate the course, I wouldn't r...
JOHN ZELEZNY I suggest three things a) every state should require photo Id to vote. We demand it to board planes ...
JOHN FUND I'd be lying if I told you I wasn't feeling the pressure. I missed a couple of balls early doors but...
MATTHEW STEVENS If I did everything, I probably wouldn't be here talking to you. There aren't too many peopl...
VERNE TROYER To tell you the truth, I'm surprised Honda paid so much to get Jenson out of his Williams deal becau...
DAN WHELDON C++ and Java, say, are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around.
DENNIS RITCHIE I think it's too early to comment on that. I think you can certainly discern that we would certainly...
RUPERT MURDOCH Of course, of course I'm grateful. How can I not be grateful? I have been afforded such a wonder...
KATHERINE HEIGL I certainly hope so. Hopefully, during the course of the game, they'll realize that those are some b...
WILL CAUDLE I would be lying if I said I'm not flattered being voted as the 'Time's' Most Desira...
ARJUN RAMPAL If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right
STEVE JOBS We don't know if that is true yet, of course, but it is certainly worth investigating, given our fin...
ELIOT ROSEN Isn’t it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn’t. I did it so I’d have a reason to be around you...
RICHELLE MEAD Feast of Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Teacher, 430 Great art Thou, O Lord, and highly to be praise...
C. I. SCOFIELD The church has failed to follow her appointed pathway of separation, holiness, heavenliness and test...
C. I. SCOFIELD Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the ...
JAY MCINERNEY I love that Moana is a heroine, and I hope people take that away, and that you most certainly can be...
AULI'I CRAVALHO When I was 23, I climbed this mountain in Alaska called Devil's Thumb alone. It was incredibly d...
JON KRAKAUER You can't plan everything - if I did a performance exactly how I rehearsed it, it would be so bo...
ADAM LAMBERT I'm certainly grateful that there were projects that I did that people responded to. It would be...
CHRISTIAN SLATER Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 I think that most Christians would be better pl...
A. W. TOZER All things were ready for us at our birth; it is we that have made everything difficult for ourselve...
FRANCINE JAY It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means ...
PATRICIA C. WREDE Well, of all the bacon-brained, sapskulled, squirish, buffle-headed nodcocks!
PATRICIA C. WREDE Is it your background, then?" Lord Franton smiled and shook his head. "That need not worry you. You'...
PATRICIA C. WREDE The King and Queen did the best they could. They hired the most superior tutors and governesses to t...
PATRICIA C. WREDE I loved getting my M. B. A., and I really enjoyed being an accountant and financial analyst before I...
PATRICIA C. WREDE (In reply to the question, 'Would you like some suggestions for a plot for your next book?')
PATRICIA C. WREDE Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who...
PATRICIA C. WREDE Mendanbar took a deep breath. “You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me.” This wasn�...
PATRICIA C. WREDE That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.
PATRICIA C. WREDE Well, it doesn't sound particularly noble and knightly to say you've rescued the Chief Cook and Libr...
PATRICIA C. WREDE Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
PATRICIA C. WREDE Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own...
PATRICIA C. WREDE She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh.
PATRICIA C. WREDE We have a form they use. It's a student application, and they have to tell us why they want to be a ...
JEFF WREDE There won't be any gimmicks. Just play your position. It will come down to which team has the most t...
JEFF WREDE Basically, the high school students are placed into an elementary school on basis of need.
JEFF WREDE We can't let Kelley get to the outside. We have to contain him. He will probably get 20?30 touches, ...
JEFF WREDE We're pleasantly surprised. Not because we didn't think we were good enough, but because we've had s...
JEFF WREDE Defensively, we were very pleased with the way we played. Our defense is very athletic and we have g...
JEFF WREDE It's nice to have a kicker like that at the end of the game. It's nice to have a weapon like that.
JEFF WREDE A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specia...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle re...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on t...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like th...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting proje...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brothe...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ It takes one person to give you a big chance.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
PATRICIA SUN There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Becaus...
PATRICIA SUN Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thin...
PATRICIA SUN We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style o...
PATRICIA SUN We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ig...
PATRICIA SUN When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we h...
PATRICIA SUN The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out....
PATRICIA SUN I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were ta...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a cand...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their proces...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER You measure a government by how few people need help.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the f...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if th...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never a...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without th...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fe...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than oth...
PATRICIA RIGGEN Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic d...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and h...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
PATRICIA RIGGEN The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
PATRICIA RIGGEN The idea that women compete or don't like each other or undermine each other or sabotage each ot...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don&#...
PATRICIA RIGGEN Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. A...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because the...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every sin...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days afte...
PATRICIA RIGGEN The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out t...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It ju...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the l...
PATRICIA RIGGEN Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
PATRICIA RIGGEN When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all...
PATRICIA RIGGEN It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble w...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, w...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter h...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these i...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and the...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone&...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody'...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that i...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan...
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 The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French nobl...
PATRICIA MARX New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
PATRICIA MARX I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
PATRICIA MARX I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I ...
PATRICIA MARX I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alo...
PATRICIA MARX Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name ...
PATRICIA MARX Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
PATRICIA MARX For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
PATRICIA MARX I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and se...
PATRICIA MARX I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
PATRICIA MARX Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
PATRICIA MARX The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
PATRICIA MARX It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even fiv...
PATRICIA MARX Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of ...
PATRICIA MARX Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists cl...
PATRICIA MARX 'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of char...
PATRICIA MARX Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's ...
PATRICIA MARX One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels ...
PATRICIA MARX New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just bec...
PATRICIA MARX Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, wha...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and b...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended fam...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose thin...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I do...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.
PATRICIA KAAS When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
PATRICIA KAAS People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
PATRICIA KAAS When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time i...
PATRICIA KAAS I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after,...
PATRICIA KAAS Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.
PATRICIA KAAS Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our ent...
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