Phoebe Philo Quotes
I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I have seven children by six different mothers. Maybe success was too good to me.
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Anyone can go out on stage and start beating people over the head with rubber chickens. That'll get people's attention.
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I really enjoy the fun of putting something out and people liking it or hating it or talking about it, but vacuous attention, it feels disgusting. It's like a hangover.
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Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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When I finished touring 'Fur and Gold,' I was just like, 'What am I doing? What do I have? Where is my home?' I didn't really know where it was, so I went to New York to try and make it there.
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I love spending time researching a character and reading about them.
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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I would really like to play someone contemporary, as I've done lots of period pieces. I would love to play an American bimbo or a grimy Londoner. But I'm probably more suited in people's minds to playing a corseted victim.
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When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well is drying up. It's tempting because that's where the money is. I've had to be very careful; as soon as I think I'm getting close to that dry well, I wrap the series up. I don't want to just keep writing something because it sells.
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When I was little, I would close my eyes and put my finger on a page. Then in my mind, I would go to that place.
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In our time, what is at issue is the very nature of man, the image we have of his limits and possibilities as a man. History is not yet done with its exploration of the limits and meanings of human nature.
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I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.
