Phoebe Cates Quotes
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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It's tricky, performing the show live. Because when you're in a big auditorium, in front of 700 people, the natural tendency is to want to talk louder. You want to project.
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There is no room on the federal bench for a judge who does not treat all people as equal before the law.
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I've always found teenagers really interesting. I think they've got so much going on in their lives, so that lends itself really well to fiction because there's so much drama, so much activity, so much growth.
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I know what I need. I don't want people to tell me what I need.
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The Guardian (14 August 1981).
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I always work from outline and almost always write out of sequence. It just works for me.
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Look at what realists have done for us. They have led us to war and climate change, poverty on an unimaginable scale, and wholesale ecological destruction. Half of humanity goes to bed hungry because of all the realistic leaders in the world. I tell people who call me 'unrealistic' to show me what their realism has done. Realism is an outdated, overplayed and wholly exaggerated concept.
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People follow proven formulas in any business.
