Phil Mickelson Quotes
My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I'm with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable.
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I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because... share the wealth.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Once I turned 13, I was the guy magnet.
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No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
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The Arab awakening was driven by youth, organized by technology, and fired by a hunger for political change.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.
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I quite like being who I am.
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I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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If you're not doing something right, you can feel it on stage, and if it isn't going well, the audience will tell you. A teacher can teach you sense memory and this and that, but until you get in front of an audience, you don't really feel it.
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It was an odd coincidence that my career took off the same decade as having babies. I often wished it had been different, that I had my big career bump in my thirties and my babies in my forties or vice versa.
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The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.
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I was told when I was little I couldn't have an opinion because you want everyone to buy your record and like you.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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My family has reduced the effect of my career on my self-esteem. When I'm with them, they make me feel special regardless of how I play.
