Philip Treacy Quotes
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	Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?   
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	I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.   
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	I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.   
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	In thinking about it, the villains often have a little bit more range because their morality is different. You can have just a really good time as an actor, and there is just more there that you can explore on that side of the story.   
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	The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.   
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	It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.   
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	I have been acting since I was thirteen.   
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	Hip-hop artists, especially the older ones, are the ones who knew hip-hop was a worldwide phenomenon before the mainstream caught on, so hip-hop artists are forward thinkers. We want to stay with the new.   
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	It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.   
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	If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.   
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	My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.   
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	I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.   
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	To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.   
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	Twitter has become a group conversation of that type that used to take place on trading floors.   
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	If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.   
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	You have to stay alert. You've got to keep raising your game.   
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	Math is one of my favorite subjects.   
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	But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.   
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	Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.   
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	From Borges, those wonderful gaucho stories from which I learned that you can be specific as to a time and place and culture and still have the work resonate with the universal themes of love, honor, duty, betrayal, etc. From Amiri Baraka, I learned that all art is political, although I don't write political plays.   
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	Obsession with self is the motif of our time.   
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	I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.   
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	People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.   
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	I make hats for lots of iconic people, and that makes my job very interesting.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					