Candice Patton Quotes

I get comments all the time on Twitter, and fan mail about how amazing it is to see me play Iris West: a strong woman. It's not really about her being black; she just happens to be black.

Candice Patton

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I can't stand the short story form, which, after all, is a magazine form.

Jim Harrison

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He missed an invaluable opportunity to hold his tongue.

Andrew Lang

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Cleaning is therapy for me. I'm not ashamed of holding the duster or broom.

Amisha Patel

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There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better.

Joyce Carol Oates

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I gotta make money - it all tends to disappear in this field.

Josh Brolin

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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

Josh Billings

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Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.

Jaron Lanier

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My family, the support of my friends, the amount of people that have written and come up to me on the street and said, 'Thank you for representing us,' and Adam Lambert, and Lady Gaga, that's been amazing.

Johnny Weir

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The mistake that makes launching a venture expensive is when you try to make a disruptive technology so good that it can compete on a quality basis with an established product.

Clayton M. Christensen

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For me, the watershed was Hurricane Katrina. If that didn't get people out on the streets, then what will?

Claire Messud

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On the road, we watch 'The Mighty Boosh.' We have so many copies, we have them in different country codes.

Brian Fallon

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I am interviewing people with a spirit of genuine interest and compassion, and therefore, the general tone of the site is one of genuine interest and compassion. The moment that culture changes, 'Humans of New York' is no longer viable.

Brandon Stanton

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