Philip Schultz Quotes
I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created.
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Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else's pain is as meaningful as your own.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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There have been moments in my career when I've had to be tough and I've had to step up to the plate - but usually that's because a man has underestimated me. But other than that, I wouldn't say I'm a tough person.
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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
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I do a lot of yoga, and that definitely helps. And Pilates is so good for your legs.
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I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.
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This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
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I never thought of myself in comedy at all... I loved going to the theatre and seeing people wearing beautiful clothes come down the staircase and start to dance.
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I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.
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And unless you have that sense of being creative, people think you're just working all the time.
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Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.
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I'm not a feminist that hates men by any means.
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Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.
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All good niggas, all the niggas who change the world, die in violence. They don't die in regular ways.
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Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.
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Genet is a man-failure: he wills the impossible in order to derive from the tragic grandeur of this defeat the assurance that there is something other than the possible.
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You'll never get me into a tux. Not until I'm dead and I have no choice because that's what the undertaker put me in.
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
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I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance.
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No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it.
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I was 17 when I decided to write stories as big as cathedrals, overflowing with the kind of memorable and audacious characters Walker Percy, Ernest Hemingway and Saul Bellow created.
