Phil Gramm Quotes
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A lot of women find that their workwear acts as armour.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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During past years, like frightened children, we were afraid to eat the strong meat of human rights and instead sucked the milk of civil rights from the breasts of white liberals, black Uncle Toms, and Aunt Jemimas.
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The emotive power of hummus all over the Middle East cannot be overstated, being the focus of some serious tribal rivalries.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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It is more difficult to keep the attention of hearers than of readers.
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I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.
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I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
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I do think you need to understand a character's motivation and perspective.
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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
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I've always wanted a 'Full House' reunion, so when you see stuff like this comes back, it's super exciting.
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Women especially are trained to protect other people's feelings, and a lot of that involves not telling the truth even about the fundamental details of your own experiences and your own life.
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So I had a ghostwriter, they call them, or somebody who is an experienced writer, to help. I've got the ideas in my head, it's getting them properly on paper.
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You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
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David Irving is not just a Fascist historian. He is also a great historian of Fascism.
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If you watch a group of schoolchildren eating lunch together, you cannot help but notice how it is a comically Lilliputian version of the adult thing - the cocked eyebrows of conversation, the reaching for condiments, the shovelling of food into tiny mouths.
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Misery sells newspapers.
