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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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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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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I was quite cocky, but having been hailed as this great young golfer, I couldn't even make the high school golf team once I got there. I had a big dose of humble pie then, and ever since, I've always known that there is always someone out there better than you, more talented. Always.
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I'm like a fire hose when the alarm goes off in a battle against a woman. Don't ever count me out.
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I'd like to do Harvey again. I did it two years ago with Helen Hayes in New York. It was a joy. I was so glad to do it again because I never thought I did it right the first time.
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It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.
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A city should decide where it doesn't want to develop, saving at least some of the canyons and hillsides and wetlands from the bulldozer's blade.
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People follow proven formulas in any business.
