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Patricia Highsmith Quotes

I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.

Patricia Highsmith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995

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Work Know Want Mine Close Interfere

The Interest Rate Reduction Act takes a first step toward providing critical stability by eliminating the threat of an immediate interest rate increase, while making clear the need to move toward a long-term solution that serves the best interests of taxpayers and borrowers.

John Kline

Best Step First Step Solution Need

Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.

Robert Kirkman

Think Year More Image Last Made

I always hear myself saying, 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

Andy Warhol

Beauty Myself Saying Talking Know

My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.

Jeannette Walls

Sister Artist Dream Living She Her

I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was for me to sing. Maybe if I'm writing for a rapper, but I'd still write it as though it was for myself and then sometimes I'm actually asked to do the part.

Skylar Grey

Myself Focus People Me Writing Song

I always felt different in a lot of ways and didn't really know how to express that.

Troye Sivan

Know Always Different How Express

We made a good start toward preserving recreational areas like the Chattahoochee River.

Roy Barnes

Good River Start Like Made Toward

I want to make big-sounding pop records.

Mika

Want Make Pop Records

I always credited my mother with inspiring me to be a writer because she was such a passionate reader. She read poetry to me as a child. But rather late in life, I've come to appreciate my father, the accountant. He was a solid, organized, get-the-job-done kind of person-and you need that piece of it to be a writer, too.

Judith Viorst

Life Father Mother Poetry Child Me

After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24', you place your character's life in the writers' hands, and you have no idea what's going to happen until you're sent the next pages.

Cherry Jones

Life Character Great Control Hands

I'm not totally innocent, and I do date. But as a young woman, I also demand respect.

Ciara

Respect Woman Innocent Young Date

People just need to be confident in their own skin and be proud of themselves.

Bristol Palin

People Proud Confident Skin Need