Phoebe Robinson Quotes
I don't think people realize what it's like for people of color to audition for film and TV.
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Every ghetto you go to, Latinos and blacks are the two people that are together. We don't look at each other in any different way, like 'He's black; I'm Latino.' I look at us as one.
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There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
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I have been fighting climate change for two decades, and people often ask me how I remain hopeful in the face of extreme weather and grim forecasts. The answer is simple: I see countless solutions spreading across the nation and across the world. But we need more investment.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.
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The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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Being an indie queen, people think I have all these choices. Like I've just been sitting around waiting for the best indie film that I deem acceptable.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.
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It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
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What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
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People don't just love mysteries. They are obsessed with them - especially the kind that are never definitively solved.
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People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live.
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Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
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People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
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The people of the Fifth District of Louisiana need and deserve a voice in Washington.
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People ask me what the definition of perfection, I said it's none: there is no definition of perfection.
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I think you've got to like people. There are MPs who are either painfully shy or who don't like public speaking or don't socialise very well, and you just think this must be the worst job in the world for them.
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I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.
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There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.
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I am a democrat because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite reason.
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We continue to fight for good jobs that pay well and jobs that last. Helping to get folks back to work is about helping them to regain their dignity and pride. That's what families care about.
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I don't think people realize what it's like for people of color to audition for film and TV.
