Phoebe Waller-Bridge Quotes
You have to make an audience feel like they can - and want to - change something about what they are watching. And that might be the thing that galvanises them in the end, that makes them come out of themselves and say, 'No! Don't do that!'
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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If there is the right opportunity for us to have a big oil play in Congo or somewhere else, we will definitely go for it.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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I'm not an overnight sensation. I'm a Texan. And I'm a Texas success story. I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
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I don't know, I like the word sassy.
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I only know what I read in the papers.
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About once every four days, someone comes up to me and is like, 'Hey, I know you from somewhere.'
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We're about to shoot an episode on Air Force One, for instance, and we're going to take liberties, small liberties, with Air Force One, as we take small liberties with our White House set.
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I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
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I listen to older music like AC/DC.
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No matter what I have to say, I'm still trying to say it in comedic form.
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It would be great to be recognised for my achievements, but Sports Personality isn't about that.
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What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.
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It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
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Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me.
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You have to make an audience feel like they can - and want to - change something about what they are watching. And that might be the thing that galvanises them in the end, that makes them come out of themselves and say, 'No! Don't do that!'
