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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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.
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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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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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I like things simple.
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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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Everybody has that: everybody knows what it's like to go home and then regress and not be running from something, not like who you were when you were home. I think everybody relates to that.
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Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.
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I knew I was crazy because I was watching Jesus Christ Superstar and the part where Jesus carries the cross up the mountain, I actually said to myself, 'Wow! That must be a really good workout! Yeah, because you're doing arms and cardio!'
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Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.
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When you are 81 years old, you don't really need a lot of the trappings of wealth.
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That might be my epitaph: 'It wasn't as bad as I thought. Here lies Phil Lord.'
