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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Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically.
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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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I don't think I'm the world's most die-hard sci-fi fan, but I definitely grew up watching 'Star Trek' religiously - all of them: the original, 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine,' 'Voyager.' I think sci-fi has an important place in the cinema world. Fantasy is a big part of why films actually exist.
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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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You can do anything you put your heart, mind and soul into. Far more than you can imagine. Be fearless. Do it.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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Political correctness kills discussion.
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In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what he ought to see, his ears hear what he ought to hear and his heart understands what he ought to understand. "And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion," he wrote.
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I am a sound freak. I could play around with sound forever.
