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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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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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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At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
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My desires are simply I love to teach, I love to be in uniform, I love to throw batting practice, I love to be with the kids.
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In every country the mountains are fountains, not only of rivers but of men. Therefore we all are born mountaineers, the offspring of rock and sunshine.
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Since 1970, relationships can be more volatile, jobs more ephemeral, geographical mobility more intensified, stability of marriage weaker.
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Perhaps the biggest appreciation adjustment we need is toward the millions of men and women we call stepparents. We have taken for granted especially the stepparents who are raising no children of their own, and receiving no income from a significant other, but who have nevertheless chosen to invest love, time and money in children.
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I don't think you can control people. I don't think you manage people. I think you give people a direction, you give them the resources, you lead by example. They get it right, you say, 'Atta girl.' And they get it wrong, you say, 'Not good.'
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I'm obsessed with the Fenty beauty line. It's like, finally, women of color get good makeup.
