Phoebe Robinson Quotes

There's so many careers that didn't happen because women are like, 'I can't deal with this harassment. I'm going to leave this industry.'

Phoebe Robinson

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• My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Music
  • Family
  • Remember

• I started calling myself the Pied Piper, when I started using the flute sound in my music.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Sound

• As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.

  

  Naturi Naughton 3LW
  • Up
  • Work
  • Why

• The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Great
  • American

• I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Decision
  • Face
  • Consequences

• We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • People
  • You
  • Serious

• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Strong
  • Acting
  • Weak

• I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • Good
  • Friends

• There is no ideal body. It's just taking what you have and working it.

  

  Olivia Culpo
  • You
  • Body
  • Working

• I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Love
  • Problem
  • Psycho

• When I was younger, I was insecure for about 10 years: I wore glasses, had a cow's lick, buck teeth and braces. I looked ridiculous.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Glasses
  • Teeth
  • Braces

• I was born in Nashville, Tenn., but I have lived in a number of places. In 1937, I moved to Baltimore, Md., where I attended junior high and high school. I lived there for five years before leaving for college.

  

  Nancy Roman
  • School
  • High
  • College

• Singing is a prayer to me.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Me
  • Singing
  • Prayer

• Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Money
  • War
  • Advice

• One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.

  

  Mae West
  • Work
  • You
  • Know

• The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Love
  • Spirit
  • Memories

• The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Poetry
  • Feelings
  • Thought

• I think '80s pop music subconsciously informs what I'm doing.

  

  Washed Out
  • Music
  • Think
  • Doing

• My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing.

  

  Alex Campbell
  • Mind
  • She
  • Friends

• Meryl Streep was my hero. I wanted to be that type of actor more than anything.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • Hero

• I'm often forced to draw a lot of tiny panels due to the limited number of pages and the complexity of the story.

  

  George Perez

• Thou art greatly wise, my friend, and ever respected by me, yet I find not in your theory or your scope, room enough for the lyric inspirations, or the mysterious whispers of life. To me it seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive, and a slave, than always to walk in armor.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • Art
  • Friend

• I never did like Cleveland. Don't know why. Didn't like the town. Now, the people are all right, but I just didn't like the town.

  

  Stan Coveleski
  • People
  • Like
  • Cleveland

• There's so many careers that didn't happen because women are like, 'I can't deal with this harassment. I'm going to leave this industry.'

  

  Phoebe Robinson
  • Women