Phil Lord Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
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Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.
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My dad is a Chatty Cathy, the social butterfly; friendly; knows everybody in the whole world by six degrees; tells me that every performance is the greatest he's ever seen, every new outfit is the coolest. Constant cheerleader.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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When it comes to the periodic table, the United States really blew its chance to make a name for itself. If you look over a map of all the elements named for cities, states, countries, and continents, it's not surprising that European locales dominate the map.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.
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Having a son is not all pleasure.
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When you are writing a book, it feels as if you are simply concentrating on the world of the book and that whatever is happening in your personal life is outside the room, as it were. But maybe that's just the way you have to talk to yourself to make it possible.
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Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. The upper class wants people to have ambition and gumption because, if you do, you will participate and you'll move through society into a different class structure.
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I was bored by going to Mommy and Me, and I certainly didn't want to write about it.
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Whatever happens to me from now on, I can't ever imagine wanting to distance myself from The X Factor, or having a bad word to say about it, because the show opened doors for me that had never opened before.
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Anything that's of any use, famous people get hold of it and take it for themselves and it gets a bad rap.
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That might be my epitaph: 'It wasn't as bad as I thought. Here lies Phil Lord.'
