I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the mov...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I don't think Ripley is gay. He appreciates good looks in other men, that's true. But he'...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I hope it will be set in California. In a way, I made a mistake, because a New Jersey policeman can&...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I was in New York. Hitchcock was in California. He rang me to make a report on his progress and said...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanis...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH A few years ago, there were requests to me, Can we make this? I said that I have no rights. Contact ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Itali...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Ripley is married. And he's not lost. He has his feet on the ground.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and ha...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mot...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH And when all's said and done, the final comment will be (from me at least) so what? I'll live with m...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Obsessions are the only things that matter.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH What chance combination of shadow and sound and his own thoughts had created it?
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled beca...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I feel I stand in a desert with my hands outstretched, and you are raining down upon me.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH She knew what bothered her at the store...It was that the store intensified things that had always b...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Was it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she didn't even know. S...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH How indifferent he was to Carol after all, Therese thought. She felt he didn't see her, as he someti...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Do people always fall in love with things they can't have?'

'Always,' Carol said, smiling...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH There is no moral to my life - I have none - except: 'Stand up and take it'. The rest is sentiment.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH He seems to be making you that way too - enough to tolerate people like him. And once you start tole...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I should love to do a novel... about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary l...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Perhaps God and the Devil danced hand in hand around every single electron.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Ripley's Game,
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what s...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Fantasy, an unflagging optimism is necessary for a writer at all stages of this rough game. A kind o...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH But love and hate, he thought now, good and evil, lived side by side in the human heart, and not mer...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Each person carries around in himself a terrible other world of hell and the unknown. It is an enorm...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have b...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Outside, under the marquee of the hotel, he stood a moment as he did each night beneath the marquee ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH One interesting thing is that a stage is reached when nothing hurts any more. Things cannot become a...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Thinking no more about it, he stepped off into that cool space, that fast descent to her, with nothi...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH And she did not have to ask if this were right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH She was conscious of the moments passing like irrevocable time, irrevocable happiness, for in these ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Do you like her'
''Of course!' What a question! Like asking her if she believe in God.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH What could be duller than past history!' Therese said, smiling. 'Maybe futures that won't have any h...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Their eyes met at the same instant moment, Therese glancing up from a box she was opening, and the w...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I know what they'd like, they'd like a blank they could fill in. A person already filled in disturbs...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH What was it to love someone, what was love exactly, and why did it end or not end? Those were the re...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH It would be Carol, in a thousand cities, a thousand houses, in foreign lands where they would go tog...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their en...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be ter...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH If he believed in the full complement of evil in himself, he had to believe also in a natural compul...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I got a theory a person ought to do everything it’s possible to do before he dies, and maybe die t...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH one blow in anger [would] kill, probably, a child from aged two to eight. Those over eight would tak...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH For a first game, it was a real big test for him, and he did good.
ALI HIGHSMITH Cameron did real good. He made the adjustment just like the rest of the linebackers before him. He t...
ALI HIGHSMITH When our line puts that kind of pressure on a quarterback, it makes it kind of easy because he's alw...
ALI HIGHSMITH If churches can take ownership of HIV prevention and embrace a dialogue with youth and young adults,...
YVETTE HIGHSMITH FRANCIS A draft doesn't produce the people we need to satisfy our real manpower shortage. We need specia...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Clothes, thank God I can get them from designers.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle re...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on t...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like th...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting proje...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I think if I could have a boyfriend like my brothers I'd be really happy. But without the brothe...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ It takes one person to give you a big chance.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.
PATRICIA SUN There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Becaus...
PATRICIA SUN Nothing will ensure war more certainly or entrench rivalries more seriously than for or against thin...
PATRICIA SUN We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style o...
PATRICIA SUN We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ig...
PATRICIA SUN When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we h...
PATRICIA SUN The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out....
PATRICIA SUN I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were ta...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I learned a lot about America and a lot about Pat Schroeder, and that's why I will not be a cand...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER It's outrageous that many enlisted people qualify for food stamps because military salaries are ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their proces...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER You measure a government by how few people need help.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the f...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Nobody ever says to men, how can you be a Congressman and a father.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The only study that the federal government has engaged in with a vengeance is in trying to see if th...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never a...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I have a brain and a uterus and I use both.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The Pledge of Allegiance says, 'liberty and justice for all'.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER We're going through the Olympics. We're watching women working as teams. We're watching ...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without th...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fe...
PATRICIA SCHROEDER I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than oth...
PATRICIA RIGGEN Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic d...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and h...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
PATRICIA RIGGEN The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
PATRICIA RIGGEN The idea that women compete or don't like each other or undermine each other or sabotage each ot...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don&#...
PATRICIA RIGGEN Directors only have instinct to work out of, because there is no formula. Formulas don't work. A...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I think the three Mexican directors - Alejandro Inarritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro - gave ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because the...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I finally, you know, moved to Mexico City, where the film industry is. I started working there as a ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN If your film is in English, it makes it that much easier to get a wide release.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I am tired of having to prove myself constantly, even after being hired. Every single day, every sin...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days afte...
PATRICIA RIGGEN The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out t...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I went to New York City to Columbia University, and with the first directing exercise, I knew I was ...
PATRICIA RIGGEN It never crossed my mind to be a director, and I'll tell you why: because I'm a woman. It ju...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I've always seen movies in English with Spanish subtitles. For audiences around the world, the l...
PATRICIA RIGGEN Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
PATRICIA RIGGEN When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all...
PATRICIA RIGGEN It's a very tricky relationship, the cinematographer and the director as a woman.
PATRICIA RIGGEN I didn't want to do comedy again. It is way harder when you are doing comedy. You can't just...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble w...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Television is a real woman's medium... but what's disturbing is, still even in television, w...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I always hated perfect TV moms because I always thought that was unrealistic.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I know it's a lot harder for women who don't have enough help, but the truth is, no matter h...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON It was extremely hard going from being a parent of one to a parent of three, because now all these i...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I don't understand that, because I think that what people like most about the show is that they ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and the...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone&...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody'...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I kind of feel like people like to dump on 'Home Improvement,' and I don't know why.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I still get the kids to the doctor and dentist and plan their play dates and buy their clothes.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that i...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Losing their reproductive rights is the first step to how women live in Saudi Arabia and Afghanistan...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I live in such a sweet world in the world of 'Home Improvement' that I tend to be drawn to s...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I curse too much. I really do. I have a horrible cursing mouth.
PATRICIA RICHARDSON I'd like us to deliver a little message to all the men still out there who think it's the &#...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON But then my mother, who's a very selfless, stoic person from a family of Marines, would tell us ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scatte...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whol...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON Instead of yelling and spanking, which don't work anyway, I believe in finding creative ways to ...
PATRICIA RICHARDSON A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one fami...
PATRICIA RAE One of the first things that I did was, I got myself a publicist as soon as 'Maria Full of Grace...
PATRICIA RAE You don't always necessarily see eye to eye with the people that you are getting married into yo...
PATRICIA RAE I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad!
PATRICIA POLACCO My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would ...
PATRICIA POLACCO I don't believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of ...
PATRICIA POLACCO I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see won...
PATRICIA POLACCO I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
PATRICIA POLACCO I lived the first five years of my life on a farm in Union City, Michigan, with my mom and grandpare...
PATRICIA POLACCO I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books...
PATRICIA POLACCO Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist.
PATRICIA POLACCO My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relat...
PATRICIA POLACCO Now, I've got to tell you: 'In Our Mothers House,' I don't think is for a kindergart...
PATRICIA POLACCO When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
PATRICIA POLACCO My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.
PATRICIA POLACCO My stories deal with multicultural situations as well as multigenerational settings.
PATRICIA POLACCO When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always sur...
PATRICIA POLACCO I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it...
PATRICIA POLACCO Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
PATRICIA POLACCO Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to o...
PATRICIA POLACCO I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare ...
PATRICIA POLACCO What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and ...
PATRICIA POLACCO I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most he...
PATRICIA POLACCO My parents were divorced when I was three, and both my father and mother moved back into the homes o...
PATRICIA POLACCO I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in ha...
PATRICIA POLACCO I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish livin...
PATRICIA POLACCO Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
PATRICIA POLACCO Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
PATRICIA NORRIS I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're ha...
PATRICIA NORRIS As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and ...
PATRICIA NORRIS When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. W...
PATRICIA NEAL I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
PATRICIA NEAL Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gatew...
PATRICIA MILLETT What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom...
PATRICIA MILLETT I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivi...
PATRICIA MILLETT I do not need any cheerleaders at my moot court. And I cannot imagine walking into that Court withou...
PATRICIA MILLETT