Phoebe Robinson Quotes
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The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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I am healthy and happy.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I can't say I follow it, but I've watched 'Downton Abbey' a couple of times and loved it.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week.
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The atmosphere of Catholicism in Korea is quite different to the way it is practised and perceived in Europe or the U.S.
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I once saw an elaborate landscape in a gallery, drawn in pencil, that took my breath away. Then I realized the artist probably didn't have enough confidence to use a pen.
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The Paris peace talks kept a roof over my head and food on the table and clothes on my back because if something was said going in or coming out, I had the rent for the month.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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Fifteen years ago, I suffered a stroke, which caused me to lose my speech. Now, what does an actor who can't talk do? Wait for silent pictures to come back? I work with a speech therapist twice a week.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.
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Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.
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One cannot control the life they are born into.
