Patricia Riggen Quotes

I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a producer, which is a very, very valid thing for women to do, because we always produce for men, right?

Patricia Riggen

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It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

John Hewson

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I could never overstate the importance of a musician's need to develop his or her ear. Actually, I believe that developing a good 'inner ear' - the art of being able to decipher musical components solely through listening - is the most important element in becoming a good musician.

Steve Vai

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The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.

Tom Stoppard

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No matter what Aristotle and the Philosophers say, nothing is equal to tobacco; it's the passion of the well-bred, and he who lives without tobacco lives a life not worth living.

Moliere

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We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly processed and it was Americans that did it. If we are going to continue to utilize those goods, then what's going to have to happen is that the employers are going to have to elevate the wages in order to attract American workers to do those jobs.

Mo Brooks

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Cooking is about imbibing different cultures and putting them in a plate on the table.

Johnny Iuzzini

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Paul Auster is my favourite writer, and I'm sure he'd be a very interesting person to share a journey with.

Cornelia Parker

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It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.

Courtney B. Vance

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Corey feldman and I did sneak into the screening room one day during Lost Boys.

Corey Haim

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My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

Anthony Kiedis

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Like any traveler, I'm always looking for those experiences that are almost unique to any place, and watching films around Alaska of the skies in winter made me want to taste those unworldly showers of light in person.

Pico Iyer

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I always tell my students: I don't care which side you're on. I respect you too much to try to persuade you in 120 minutes a week, much less lure you into pretending that you agree with me. All I want is for you to own this democracy, to see yours, to have a stake in it.

Susan Estrich

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