Patrick Carman Quotes

There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'

Patrick Carman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 27, 1966

Topics

FunBookNewWhyScaredCreek

The problem with my mother is that she didn't go to the doctor. And I think by the time she started to show symptoms that something might not be right, and finally went to the doctor, she was so close to her death that she couldn't get the care she had needed. Her big issue was not going to the doctor.

Andie MacDowell

MotherTimeDeathDoctorThinkCare

People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.

Tony Parsons

I AmPeopleNiceAlwaysGuyAm

Free and civilized societies do not hold prisoners incommunicado.

Tom McClintock

FreeHoldPrisonersCivilized

Let me give you an idea of Fifties Britain. The war had ended ten years before, and most people had returned to their gardens and allotments hoping life would revert to how it was before the hostilities.

Mary Quant

LifeWarPeopleMeYouTen Years

Most time capsules, when they're unearthed, are really awful. There's nothing good in them.

Douglas Coupland

GoodTimeNothingAwfulMostReally

I'm probably the furthest from being romantic that you've ever seen; I'm not even close to being romantic in any way until I have to be.

Brian McKnight

RomanticYouWaySeenBeingEven

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

Antonin Artaud

MorningTimeMyselfMeSuicideKnow

This was good training for research, because large parts of experimental work are sometimes boring or involve the use of skills in which one is not particularly gifted.

Martin Lewis Perl

WorkGoodTrainingResearchSkills

I understood the feeling of being 17 and living with your parents somewhere, and then being 18 and living in New York and having a city at your disposal.

Morgan Saylor

New YorkParentsCityNewLiving

I had many teachers that were great, positive role models and taught me to be a good person and stand up and be a good man. A lot of the principals they taught me still affect how I act sometimes and it's 30 years later.

Kevin James

PositiveGoodGreatManMeGood Man

As humans, we've all experienced some level of pain. Acting is just a matter of accessing and magnifying these emotions.

Gustaf Skarsgard

PainActingEmotionsMatterLevel

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

MyselfHispanicWriterConsider

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