Phoebe Robinson Quotes
I never really thought of comedy as a career. My goal was, when I moved to New York, I was going to write serious films.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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I read fashion magazines all the time. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.
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Here at home, President Obama early on made the connection between growth and economic opportunity for women. In the depths of our crisis in 2009, one of the first laws the president signed was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. He established an Equal Pay Task Force led by Valerie Jarrett to help women get paid what they earn.
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Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they're immortal.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west.
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I shall never ask any pilot to go on a mission that I won't go on.
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My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I wanted to be a big boy or whatever. I remember looking up on that screen. It was a movie about medieval knights. All I remember is saying, 'I want to do that. I want to make movies.'
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If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
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I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
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It's amazing that this is still news to people, but that affects the final outcome of the film. When people are treated well, and they're made to feel valued, they give 110 percent.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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When you're young, you're stupid.
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I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.
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There's that rule: Don't show any of the other cameras. Why? Do you think the viewer doesn't think we filmed this?
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No, I don't think I'm ever going to get serious.
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Failure is inherent in the game. So if you don't respond well to adversity, you're probably not going to have a long career.
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In America, you can't say to your family, 'Hey, I'm off to L.A. to make it as a songwriter; sorry I can't pay for the dentist.'
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I never really thought of comedy as a career. My goal was, when I moved to New York, I was going to write serious films.
