Phoebe Robinson Quotes
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I love anything to do with history.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Relationships can be very traumatic. But being in a healthy relationship can be very empowering.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.
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I was never really acting. I was not taking it seriously. Acting was very much a hobby for me. It wasn't really until I was finishing college and doing it sporadically that I began to take it seriously.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
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Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
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I would wear entirely one color: tutus, furry pants. It was totally outrageous. My family was deeply embarrassed to be seen with me.
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Improv as an actor makes you present in the moment. You listen, you're attentive. You're not acting so much as reacting, which is what you're doing in life all the time.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
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I'm tired of fighting. I've always known that I can't be an action star all my life.
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I like the fact that I'm from the South and that I have this rich history behind me. I come from a family of storytellers. They can't just tell you how someone went to the store. They have to tell you who they saw, what they were wearing, what they said, what they had in their grocery cart.
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You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.
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To eat passionately is to allow the world in.
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Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.
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So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
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I'm obsessed with the Fenty beauty line. It's like, finally, women of color get good makeup.
