T.R. Patrick Quotes

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

People are going to keep getting prescribed medication that is counter to what their real disease state is, which is addiction.

Everybody's got their secrets; I carry mine like a jagged stone in my shoe.

Kara do you love Brad?' All my heart.' Then how can you let him leave next year?' I guess love isn’t enough sometimes.

these are the screams within these are the life streams bleeding from skin

Anything that makes you happy can make you sad.

There is eloquence in screaming.

It’s easy to watch someone else’s life crash and burn, harder to watch your own accident up close.

The court that serves America should reflect America.

I don't want somebody as attorney general who thinks he has to rubberstamp whatever the president says.

I look forward to the time when the membership of the Supreme Court's more reflective of the country it serves.

Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.

I think that we should not delay for the sake of delay, but delay until questions are answered.

The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law.

[Sandra Day O'Connor] is a justice whose graciousness and sense of duty fuels her continued service, even agreeing to serve more than six months after her retirement date.

Most Americans want a sense of privacy. A lot of us don't realize how much of our privacy we're exposing by the internet.

The federal judiciary is unlike the other branches of government. And once confirmed, a federal judge serves for life. And there's no court above the Supreme Court.

The appointment of the next Supreme Court justice must be made in the people's interest and in the nation's interest, not in the interest of any partisan faction.

Judiciary is where my passion is.

We've won wars before and we've certainly retained our rights as Americans.

A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.

Press releases tell us when federal agencies do something right, but the Freedom of Information Act lets us know when they do not.

In my view it is time to pass a good bill, a fair bill, a comprehensive bill ... Too many have been waiting too long for fairness.

I intend to have protections for the L.G.B.T. community in there. I'm not going to make choices between that community and the non-L.G.B.T. community.

. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.

The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.

I never really understood how movies were made, because it was such a technical accomplishment.

I learned so much about the making of Star Wars and that became a real drive for me, right from the time I was 12 or 13.

I realized that there was an actual job of making movies. They weren't created by elves.

I always wanted to tell stories. From the time I had 20 cents or a quarter in my pocket, I could peddle my old Rambler 500 down to the corner store and buy comic books.

I love making genre films. It's something I've really been attracted to since I was a kid, mostly because, as a kid, it was forbidden fruit.

Movies, over time, as they do or don't find their audience, or they find a different audience, they change in your memory and in the eyes of those who see it.

Every battalion has its marching songs.

Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

I was absolutely delighted that those shows have been preserved.

How people ignored each other before smartphones.

Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.

Everything is a version of something else.

Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.

I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.

I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.

Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.

I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

Games in hand are a good thing only if you win them.

[Magic] can guide people to the very edge of reason - and then push them off. Thoughts collapse for a moment and the mind is free to just experience. Magic is a window to eternity.