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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I'm the kind of person who'll have a few drinks and fall asleep at 11.
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If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure.
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Perfectionism is the death of a great room.
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I love my fan base because they never high-five me; they always get really shifty and hide. Adam Sandler's fan base are like, 'Hey!' and high-five him and want to hang out, but mine go behind pillars and get really freaked out.
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When you have a perfect free market, it's difficult to predict the future. But when you have a market that is disturbed by government manipulations and money-printing, it's impossible to make any predictions.
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Fiction is the best way I know how to think something through.
