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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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 man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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I believe that when Paul Martin cancelled affordable housing across this country it produced a dramatic rise in homelessness and deaths due to homelessness and I've always said I hold him responsible for that.
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I got out of difficult situations when many of my classmates didn't because I was smart, and I was lucky, and my parents were amazingly literate and helpful.
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You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.
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A masterpiece of fiction is an original world and as such is not likely to fit the world of the reader.
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Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
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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.
