Phil Lord Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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One of the things that's interesting is that the PC has always had a huge amount of scalability. It was sort of the wild dog that moved into Australia and killed all the local life because it could just adapt. There used to be these dedicated devices, like dedicated word processors.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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I like egg white omelets with veggies, or oatmeal with almonds and fruit.
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The president is just the coach of a football team. You need the right support, the right stadium, the right players, the right staff. An excellent coach is not going to win games.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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I don't think the deficit of the country is a Republican issue or a Democratic issue. I think it's a country issue. I don't think worrying about the reindustrialization of America is a Republican or Democratic issue.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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I grew up really poor and have always been the type of person who will work earlier or work harder or more than the other person to even the playing field.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree.
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When I'm plotting out a book, I use a storyboard - I'll have maybe three lines across on the storyboard and just start working through the plot line. I always know where relationships will go and how the book is going to end.
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Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.
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To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor.
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The great ideas start flowing when you stop thinking about the obvious way of doing it.
