Phoebe Waller-Bridge Quotes
If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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How lucky are we to have Naomi Watts and Sean Penn playing us? We've seen the final cut now a couple times, and the scenes with the marriage fraying at the edges are still very difficult to watch. However, our hope was that no matter your political persuasion, you're taken with the idea that it's important to hold power in check.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I did try fillers once. Don't ever have fillers because when your cheekbones are high, it's chipmunk time.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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People don't think an athlete nowadays can have a team-first mentality and I do.
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Amaranth, the world's most nutritious grain, is available from health food stores.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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Imagine a libertarian president challenging Congress to repeal the PATRIOT Act.
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I'm definitely not getting married. In this business, you're either getting married or they want you to be pregnant. I'm not getting married until I'm forty. If ever.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things.
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Power, like fear, had a taste. But power tasted better.
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Look, does gender play a part in how people perceive Hillary Clinton? Yes. But it's also not the reason people criticize her about the emails or Benghazi.
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Our volitional habits depend, then, first, on what the stock of ideas is which we have; and, second, on the habitual coupling of the several ideas with action or inaction respectively.
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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
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If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.
