Philip Massinger Quotes
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.
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There's a time that may come in an organization where leading by influence is not enough. When things are not going the way they need to go, there's a time when one has to step up... to set the organization back on the right direction.
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I was physically abused and I retaliated.
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Part of the whole L.A. mentality that nothing really matters unless it's a success... is such a shallow and dangerous attitude to have.
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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In a lot of films, they're showing more complete, developed characters of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The larger concern is to be able to tastefully explore the stereotypes, and still move past them to see the core of people.
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I think if anybody had the opportunity to stay in one place and play ball, they would.
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I could keep trying to do the same kind of comedies. You know how it's going to go, and you can get an audience with it, but then I feel like a hamster on a wheel.
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You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
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The fact is that democracy anywhere in the world, including in the United States, is not something that comes easy. And yet, we are committed to it, and equality and democracy are the only ways in the long run that Jews will be safe in the Middle East.
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My father is my inspiration.
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I'm a very light sleeper. I get about six hours a night.
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This journey started about 42 years ago in a little town of Brunswick, Georgia.
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I'm not shutting myself off from kids; I'm remaining open to kids and the energy that they bring.
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Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.
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Responsibility educates.
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When I look into the eyes of my Prince, and my daughter Paris, I see miracles and I see beauty.
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Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
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I grew up in Indianapolis, Ind., then a conservative, provincial city. Anglophilia was the first foreign language I was exposed to. Or maybe it was a way of one-upping the local white people. Or maybe it was an early manifestation of homohood.
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I'm not sure what I was good at as a kid. I was good at playing with Legos.
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He that would govern others, first should be Master of himself.
