Pauline Phillips Quotes
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What was once underground is now coming to the surface.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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Anyone should be able to read comics.
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I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way.
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
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My album is very uplifting and positive and fun. That was my mission - to get people up on their feet and escape the seriousness of life.
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I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
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Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
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Broadband Internet access shouldn't depend on who you are or where you're from.
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I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It's not heavy. I don't have skeletons in the closet on their way out.
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The one thing I think I've noticed about shows that are supposed to be funny on television is that they've sort of become routinized, so there's an awful lot of mannerisms and joke lines that are sort of there to trigger laughter, rather than give actors a chance to play a moment.
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The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.
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People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
