Phoebe Robinson Quotes
I love how most people in 'Sixteen Candles' don't actually look their age. It adds to the movie's funky and low-budget vibe.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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America is not the center of the universe.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight.
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My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.
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Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.
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In general, while Trump has been a master of Twitter, he has shown an aversion to, and ignorance of, technology itself.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I felt I had to share Idaho with my friend from New York because he'd shared New York with me, so I was going to share the beauty of nature with a man who went to museums and clubs late at night. But there was nothing to do where I lived at night.
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I was five when I did my first show with the Mountain Play Theatre company in Marin County. I started young, and since no one in my family was involved in the industry in any way shape or form, I think everyone thought I'd do a few plays and that would be it. But then I kept doing it.
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The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.
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Without mincing words or really embellishing anything... I consider Mike Alsbury the renaissance man. He could do it all. He was an engineer. He was a pilot. He worked well with others. He had a great sense of humor. I never heard him raise his voice or lose his cool.
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I love how most people in 'Sixteen Candles' don't actually look their age. It adds to the movie's funky and low-budget vibe.
