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 loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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People sense that our reaction to phenomena such as epidemics or religious war is not that different to how we reacted to plagues or to battles a millennia ago.
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It's been dawning on me slowly that for the past 35 years I have been cast against type, and I'm finally getting to do what I really wanted to do.
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Be prepared for negative responses sometimes. It doesn't have anything to do with you. It's just sometimes you're not the right look, or you're not really what they were envisioning.
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Citizen activists look in the mirror, see what they're really good at and then apply their talents to solving social problems. It's skills-based volunteering.
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I'm obsessed with the Fenty beauty line. It's like, finally, women of color get good makeup.
