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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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 did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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Until the people, by amendment, change the constitution, I urge that the counties cooperate with one another, that future road work be more uniform, and done in such a way that it will result in connected and continuous highways.
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An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.
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Sometimes you get the cynical person saying, 'Do we really need another book set in Nazi Germany?' But I think you just have to ask, 'Is this a story worth telling?'
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If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we'd have a better world.
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It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.
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People follow proven formulas in any business.
