Phillipa Soo Quotes
There's the cool factor, right? You see your face on a sign or your name on something, like, 'Ahh! Here I am!' And then there's a huge responsibility and the scary part of it, which is like, 'Now what happens?' And then you realize, 'Oh, yeah, this is my job.'
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
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That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.
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One thing I've tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.
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The worst excesses of the dot-com era are gone.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job.
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The cool thing about directing is, whatever cool thing works in the scene, it's still making the episode be a great story, and everyone's working toward that goal, so it doesn't much matter where it's coming from.
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I always feel that if you're going to cover a song, you should make it your own and flip it on its head.
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Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.
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There's the cool factor, right? You see your face on a sign or your name on something, like, 'Ahh! Here I am!' And then there's a huge responsibility and the scary part of it, which is like, 'Now what happens?' And then you realize, 'Oh, yeah, this is my job.'
