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Patty Smyth Quotes

I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but I lived in Brooklyn for a while as a kid. I went to junior high school there. Girls in Brooklyn have to be tough - I mean real tough - just to get by. It's life in the combat zone.

Patty Smyth

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: June 26, 1957

Topics

Life School Tough High School Mean

AC/DC is a prime example of taking that blues rock thing and just living in that world. They only really move the furniture around a little on each album, but it still works.

Joe Perry

World Furniture Blues Living Rock

I won $100,000 in Vegas, which buys furniture for my beach house. That takes nerves. You can't think if I'm wrong I'll blow $30,000.

Jennifer Tilly

Beach Think Vegas You House Wrong

Pearl Jam sit down and have conversations about Kiss all the time on tour.

Mike McCready

Time Kiss Down Sit Conversations

I am the first to admit that I have never been a household name.

Dominic Holland

I Am Name Admit Never First Been

Mainly as sort of blueprints for dealing with most of the adults in their lives, to some extent with their fellows. It is this notion of aiming high and there's always hope, aim low and you might as well stop now.

Diana Wynne Jones

Hope You Stop Now Aim High

The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.

Douglas Booth

British Been Met Supportive Very

Babies are born bow-legged in South Dakota. By the age of 12, they can purchase guns. At 14, they can take their driving test. Fortunately, since the geographical area of South Dakota can accommodate both France and Germany, but has a population of only 750,000, the chances of hitting anything are pretty slim.

Clive Sinclair

Age Driving Born Test Guns Anything

I care a great deal about LGBT U.S. servicemen and women being able to serve openly and honestly. Since early in my career, I've included realistic LGBT characters in my books. The idea that a gay Navy SEAL had to hide who he was in order to serve was a terrible one - and I made sure my readers knew that!

Suzanne Brockmann

Women Great Care Early Career Hide

To me, the struggle is to try to make a less-well-written or less-well-rounded character and find who they are. If you really get it, and it's all on the page, then it's really just gonna pop out at you.

Kevin Bacon

Character Struggle Me You Find Page

I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

Julian Casablancas

You Say Mean Perfectionist Guess

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

James Taylor

Life Shoes You Boring System Stare

Really, if you get to know pigs, they're very moody. They're not sweet little animals at all. That's what I like about them. They get depressed; they get into these snits. They're carnivorous.

Jamie Wyeth

Sweet You Know Animals Moody Pigs