Phil Klay Quotes
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I do love being on television and in peoples' homes. I'm not an actor, so there is a connection that's real.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.
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I would be happy if they just gave out nominations and there weren't any Oscars. But winning them is definitely an experience - to get up there and make a speech. Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level.
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I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
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Theatre is great, but we don't live in an idealistic world, and we have to pay our bills.
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So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.
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I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.
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Education has not traditionally been a large concern in presidential elections, presumably because the president does not run schools.
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Barbusse has shown us that the Outsider is a man who cannot live in the comfortable, insulated world of the bourgeois, accepting what he sees and touches as reality.
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I am hugely insecure and desperate to be loved and I want my reader to adore me, to a disturbing, stalkerish degree.
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I'm very private, not the interview type.
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I grew up in Africa surrounded by a lot of culture. It's made me aware that the world is a big place.
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I can't re-define music every week!
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England is the country where I learned my profession. They are the ones that trained me, they are the ones that believed in me.
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There are a certain number of extreme behaviours led by fundamentalists who are using their religion for political ends and use extremist techniques.
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Someone asked me about how it feels to wear the same costume every day and whether it gets tired or boring, but the good thing about it is that you know what to expect, every day.
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I quit drinking every night, at 1:30 A.M.
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The reason to consider life and what's of value is to make sure you're not missing out. Seize the day. What's important to you? What do you care about? What matters? Pursue that. Forget the rest.
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Pencey was full of crooks. Quite a few guys came from these wealthy families, but it was full of crooks anyway. The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding.
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All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.
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Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.
