Phillipa Soo Quotes
I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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Accomplish something every day of your life.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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When everything is going well, the role of the state in the economy should be limited. When we are in a crisis, it's different.
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I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Since belief determines behavior, doesn't it make sense that we should be teaching ethical, moral values in every home and in every school in America?
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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After I learn more English, I'll work hard and make more films.
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The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
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Slowly the ivy on the stones Becomes the stones. Women become The cities, children become the fields And men in waves become the sea.
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I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music.
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But it seemed to me that the American way of doing things was to obliterate a complete area, without really knowing exactly what was there and where they were.
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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I feel like 'Amelie' is very much an extension of me. She's a contemporary woman who sees the world through her imagination.
