Utah Phillips Quotes
When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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When I was around 12, my heroes were Cindy Sherman and Bob Dylan and Samuel Westing from the kids' novel 'The Westing Game'.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
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I hate bell peppers, which is annoying because they technically have my name all over them.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
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So long as free land exists, the opportunity for a competency exists, and economic power secures political power.
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You never know what you're in for when you take a role. When you're reading the script, you're in some café in New York and you're loving life and it sounds great because it's like reading a book. When you step into that book and you actually have to play it out, for real, it's a totally different ball game.
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I privilege the music over the lyrics.
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Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
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When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.
