Phoebe Waller-Bridge Quotes
What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I had one week in the fall of 1996 where I was like, 'I'm America's greatest living teenage poet.'
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.
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You don't need to wear Spanx if you buy my clothes. The dress, the trousers, the pencil skirt - they should do the work.
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When I was a child, the temptation to sin was always a romantic option. This romantic option led me to the cinema, a place where sin was welcome.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.
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Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.
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While novels are fiction, mine are usually very close to my heart. Like my other books, 'The Lemon Orchard' is inspired by something I care about. I care so deeply. The stories are my dreams, and I want to do a lot of research. Roberto is based on a real live friend of mine named Armando who worked in my garden.
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Scoundrels are always sociable.
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Instead of being a page-turner, 'Moby-Dick' is a repository of American history and culture and the essentials of Western literature. The book is so encyclopedic that space aliens could use it to re-create the whale fishery as it once existed on the planet Earth in the midst of the 19th century.
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As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.
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There are no conditions in which we subordinate the interests of the class as a whole to the interests of any sect, any chapel, any separate organization.
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What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.
