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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I think any writer is a fool if he doesn't do it for money. There needs to be some kind of incentive in addition to the project. It all goes together. It's fun to sit there and think of characters and get them into action, then be paid for it.
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Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.
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I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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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.
