Phoebe Robinson Quotes
I thought I was going to be a serious screenwriter and produce serious films. It was going to be 'American Beauty' and very important work.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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I feel like I personally have been lucky.
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My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
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We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
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I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
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Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.
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Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.
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If you do something new, it will always look a little bit strange.
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The show is like an Edwardian play - emotional life gets stepped on for the sake of accepted manners, and that's terrific for actors to play in.
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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
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I thought I was going to be a serious screenwriter and produce serious films. It was going to be 'American Beauty' and very important work.
