Sam Phillips Quotes
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I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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You do not need to have a 2,400-page bill come out of Washington, D.C.
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It's pretty simple, pretty obvious: that people's first impressions of people are really a big mistake.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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Well, you know what? The same people that get driven crazy by hip hop are the same people that probably listen to the type of music that drives me crazy. Like, Journey covers.
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Unfortunately, I'm very accident-prone.
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If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
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He who awaits much can expect little.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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The thing is, often press people ask questions that are so personal that even your nearest and dearest wouldn't ask them.
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.
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With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
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I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family.
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It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.
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Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
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The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
