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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
I try to do two moot courts for every Supreme Court case (and one to two for courts of appeals), and...
PATRICIA MILLETT
While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity wi...
PATRICIA MILLETT
I certainly have a pretty settled pattern at this point of what I do substantively in terms of revie...
PATRICIA MILLETT
My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK
I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into ...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK
The power of storytelling is to free us from isolation, shame, and whatever the situation.
PATRICIA MCCORMICK
High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French nobl...
PATRICIA MARX
New York is rich in culture, cuisine, and commerce.
PATRICIA MARX
I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
PATRICIA MARX
I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I ...
PATRICIA MARX
I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alo...
PATRICIA MARX
Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name ...
PATRICIA MARX
Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
PATRICIA MARX
For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
PATRICIA MARX
I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and se...
PATRICIA MARX
I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
PATRICIA MARX
Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
PATRICIA MARX
The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
PATRICIA MARX
It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even fiv...
PATRICIA MARX
Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of ...
PATRICIA MARX
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists cl...
PATRICIA MARX
'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of char...
PATRICIA MARX
Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's ...
PATRICIA MARX
One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels ...
PATRICIA MARX
New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just bec...
PATRICIA MARX
Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, wha...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and b...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN
I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN