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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When I had bone cancer, I was just 11 years old. I think my parents suffered a lot because they worried about my health, my life, so much. For me, it was quite bad feeling during the treatment. But I quite enjoyed staying in the hospital because so many kids played with me.
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I don't want to get married - I've been there and done that. So I know what I'm talking about when I say that. And for everybody has a different path - find out your path! And if you want to do it, don't let people make you feel inadequate because you wanted to do something that's different.
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I read all the time that people think I'm arrogant. They say I am cocky, a bad character. I had that from a young age. But when they meet me, they say, 'That image doesn't fit you.'
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People follow proven formulas in any business.
