Patricia MacLachlan Quotes

I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language.

Patricia MacLachlan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 3, 1938

Topics

GoodBeginningWritingStartReading

I'm a ballplayer, not an actor.

Joe DiMaggio

ActorBallplayer

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

GrowthFreedomEnemyWillConformity

Women are really complex and totally enigmatic. Humans are really complex, but in film, we've only ever seen that with men. We've seen antiheroes time and again with male characters.

Andrea Riseborough

WomenTimeMenComplexSeenFilm

I think I just have a different style.

John L. Flannery

StyleThinkDifferentJustI Think

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

Mike Myers

PeopleLanguageYouKnowTalkWell

Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous.

Michael Ondaatje

TruthTimeWrongDangerous

Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.

Lloyd Bridges

TimeDayMeSometimesThreeDamn

I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

Joseph O'Neill

LoveFeelYouRomanceWhereBooks

Bob Dylan may be the Charlie Chaplin of rock n' roll. Both men are regarded as geniuses by their entire audience. Both were proclaimed revolutionaries for their early work and subjected to exhaustive attack when later works were thought to be inferior. Both developed their art without so much as a nodding glance toward their peers.

Jon Landau

WorkArtMenThoughtEarlyRock

My fifth pro fight, I got my first title fight.

Brian Ortega

FightFirstGotTitleProFifth

In many cities, it's become popular to hate 'gentrifiers,' rich people who move in and drive up housing prices - pushing everyone else out.

Annalee Newitz

HatePeopleDriveRichBecomeOut

Gender equality is one of the principles we will never compromise at Accenture.

Pierre Nanterme

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