Phillipa Soo Quotes
I wake up around nine, drink a cup of coffee, answer some emails, and ease myself into the day.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.
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Every note is a lifetime for itself.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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I'd love to do movies and be on TV. But I think if I transitioned into TV/film completely, I would really miss singing and dancing. It would be ideal to be cast in a movie musical!
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.
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There have been many days when I have had to work up to writing 'Irredeemable' because I just didn't feel like wallowing in that world, feeling those emotions... but that's the process.
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I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.
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I love London. I'm a London fanatic. That's my city.
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I wake up around nine, drink a cup of coffee, answer some emails, and ease myself into the day.
