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Patrick Symmes quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“You hear headlines from time to time about the Amazon rainforest disappearing at a greater or lesser rate.... The real story is that over time the rate has stayed just the same. Year after year, decade after decade, we have failed to stop or really even decrease deforestation...”
-- Patrick Symmes

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“Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in...well, in the uh, Southern Hemisphere. The deep Southern Hemisphere, actually. New Zealand, maybe. Or Argentina. Possibly Chile. She suggested medication.”
-- Patrick Symmes

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“The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?”
“Of course, the advantage is that, being in this business, you get to learn a lot, experience a lot of new things, and you can become real successful. The disadvantage is, of course the negative media. People may try to manipulate you and control you, and those are the things you have to avoid. But if you maintain strong family values and you believe in God, you can be successful. So, it's been tough, but I've gotten through it because I stuck with my family and my deep belief in God.”
“Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!”
“All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.”
“STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films Iâ€™ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.”
“Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.”

Source : "A comforting way of death" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2002.
“What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.”
“I really enjoy listening to stories. I remember them and keep them in my mind.”
“I love love stories, no matter how dark.”
“The swells were amazing! As big as three-story apartment buildings!”

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