Patricia Birch quote: "What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled."

The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
PATRICIA BIRCH

I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I a...
PATRICIA BIRCH

I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of d...
PATRICIA BIRCH

My dad is Mexican, and he grew up as a normal chauvinistic Mexican, and he expected my mom to do eve...
XOCHI BIRCH

One of my concerns for my children is growing up with your parents having a lot of money.
XOCHI BIRCH

I was never a big-company type of person, and my ideal job was to be self-employed. The ironic thing...
XOCHI BIRCH

I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no ...
XOCHI BIRCH

I just felt like I was making people angry because I wouldn't wear the frilly bows.
THORA BIRCH

Assisting more people in making better choices in more frequent situations is one way the obesity ep...
AILSA BIRCH

While habits tend to be stable over time, barriers to change in the category are actually very low. ...
AILSA BIRCH

Partners or husbands can also play a role in changing our eating habits. Dating someone from another...
AILSA BIRCH

Many believe that foods make you put on weight because of what it is, rather than how much there is....
AILSA BIRCH

Food is food. People don't view it as packages of nutrients.
AILSA BIRCH

Given the growing importance of out-of-home eating, our lack of a reliable mental process to assess ...
AILSA BIRCH

When you home study, you get a better education. I basically got to teach myself. Being naturally ab...
THORA BIRCH

I built websites for myself. I didn't want to work for anyone else. I came from a science backgr...
MICHAEL BIRCH

I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being....
BIRCH BAYH

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young peo...
BIRCH BAYH

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the ...
BIRCH BAYH

First of all, I think my involvement in Title IX is probably the most important contribution I made ...
BIRCH BAYH

Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspi...
BIRCH BAYH

But people that are worried about unborn babies are the same ones that vote against kindergarten pro...
BIRCH BAYH

But if you really want to get involved in making a difference, you can stay at home with your family...
BIRCH BAYH

And Title IX coming along there. I don't think Evan would have done any different than I did. I was ...
BIRCH BAYH

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm...
BIRCH BAYH

I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago w...
BIRCH BAYH

It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex.
BIRCH BAYH

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.
FRANK BIRCH

In fact, I really didn't get enthused about his Secretary of State race until I attended a coupl...
BIRCH BAYH

When you're making a film, you become incredibly close. It's not like you're filing away...
THORA BIRCH

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.
BIRCH BAYH

I think that it's important if you run for President that you have to make those important decis...
BIRCH BAYH

I think that's most unfortunate about our Democratic system, that you're confining it to peo...
BIRCH BAYH

Within 18 months, you can't even tell where the mats are because there are so many oysters. The mats...
ANNE BIRCH

It's hands-on. They know they're helping the lagoon and they can do it easily.
ANNE BIRCH

The response to date has been tremendous. We've had 500 volunteers helping us in the past four month...
ANNE BIRCH

I don't put any credence in it.
GLYNN BIRCH

I think you can say what it's about. But it's so open to interpretation. And each person will come a...
THORA BIRCH

I admire Jodie Foster. Her head is screwed on really well. It's not loose at all.
THORA BIRCH

We've had quite strong earnings, but that is starting to be reflected in the price. Multiples curren...
DANIEL BIRCH

Europe has shrugged (high oil prices) off pretty well but I think we will see $70 a barrel and that ...
DANIEL BIRCH

Banks are concerned that there's a new breed of credit union evolving that's not the credit union of...
CHARLOTTE BIRCH

It's a combination of a lot of things dragging the market. The Bank of England left rates unchanged,...
DANIEL BIRCH

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. Or if th...
THORA BIRCH

It's a combination of a lot of things dragging the market. The Bank of England left rates unchanged,...
DANIEL BIRCH

It smacks of financial eavesdropping. It's not our role -- we're a service provider to small busines...
CHARLOTTE BIRCH

There's a threshold, and once you cross it, you're really not a credit union in the true sense of th...
CHARLOTTE BIRCH

I think some of the prevention has to do with oversight and reports. The bank can't police the indiv...
CHARLOTTE BIRCH

For me, romance isn't an over-the-top act. It's someone offering to help and to support me. ...
THORA BIRCH

It was the first smile of my life. Of course, that is a ridiculous thing to say; I had been smiled a...
CAROL BIRCH

We ask the president to heed his own advisory council, which has called on him to be bold and expres...
ELIZABETH BIRCH

Asia is a preferred health care destination and is set to grow further, fueled by the relatively low...
DON BIRCH

Asia is an ideal growth environment ... with competitively-priced quality healthcare service in majo...
DON BIRCH

The real story is that the travel industry has grown remarkably in the face of all these things.
DON BIRCH

As forecast at the beginning of the year, full service airlines have begun to look at new ways to en...
DON BIRCH

Overall, this represents a solid start to 2006, particularly when you're measuring against the stron...
DON BIRCH

Senator Santorum's remarks are deeply discriminatory and are antithetical to bringing people togethe...
ELIZABETH BIRCH

Religious political groups and their congressional allies overreached.
ELIZABETH BIRCH

Heterosexual, gay, male, female. This is an even-handed rule. It creates a very even playing field.
ELIZABETH BIRCH

Notions of privacy are not what we are dealing with here.
ELIZABETH BIRCH

You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative proce...
BIRCH BAYH

That baby's voice is music to my ears.
GLYNN BIRCH

In light of a recent study that seems to indicate a direct correlation between alcohol advertising a...
GLYNN BIRCH

Everyone should have a game plan before the fun starts on Super Bowl Sunday, such as a designated dr...
GLYNN BIRCH

Drunk driving is the nation's most frequently committed violent crime. Underage drinking is the No. ...
GLYNN BIRCH

Twenty-five years ago, drunk driving was the last socially acceptable form of murder in America. And...
GLYNN BIRCH

Seat belts are your best defense against a drunk driver. We want people to drive safe, drive sober a...
GLYNN BIRCH

The poll clearly shows this is a major concern, especially during the holidays because of increased ...
GLYNN BIRCH

The nation has become complacent. Back in the early '80s we had this grass-roots organization that w...
GLYNN BIRCH

The price of Liberty is eternal vigilance and the price of wisdom is eternal thought
FRANK BIRCH

Young people are being elected for School Boards all over the country.
BIRCH BAYH

You know I don't think we need the Republicans to steal family values from us.
BIRCH BAYH

People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how ...
BIRCH BAYH

One of the big challenges for our party is to demonstrate to people that we have an agenda for econo...
BIRCH BAYH

And Title IX coming along there. I don't think Evan would have done any different than I did. I ...
BIRCH BAYH

I think we have a number of young people - like yourself - who want to make a difference. I'm no...
BIRCH BAYH

I should point out that I was intimately involved with a group of women here a year and a half ago w...
BIRCH BAYH

How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the ...
BIRCH BAYH

You look at the whole Human Rights questions, I happened to be there at just the right time when the...
BIRCH BAYH

If it's the other guy's fault, you can't fix it. Don't blame other people for your problems. That gi...
RUTHI POSTOW BIRCH

Don't follow the crowd until you are sure you want to be where they're going.
RUTHI POSTOW BIRCH

Although some people think women are inferior to men, I think it's a privilege to be a woman. There ...
JESSICA ANGELINA BIRCH

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 really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

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What I really like doing is storytelling, finding the body language that is necessary for the story. And when I'm doing it and it's working, I'm thrilled.

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