Phylicia Rashad Quotes

What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

Phylicia Rashad

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• I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Yourself

• We were so bad last year, the cheerleaders stayed home and phoned in the cheers.

  

  Pat Williams
  • Home
  • Bad
  • Year

• We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Start
  • Feet
  • Oil

• General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Nature
  • Powerful
  • Well

• Great art - or good art - is when you look at it, experience it and it stays in your mind. I don't think conceptual art and traditional art are all that different.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Good
  • Great
  • Different

• But having set myself these goals, I had to work really hard to achieve them.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Goals

• I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Know
  • Change
  • Conclusions

• In some ways, Trump's large, national coalition defies easy characterization. He draws from a broad base of good people: kind folks who open their homes and hearts to people of all colors and creeds, married couples with happy homes and families who live nearby, public servants who put their lives on the line to fight fires in their communities.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Good
  • Live

• We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Strong
  • Forgiveness
  • Forgive

• As an actor, you spend a lot of your life in hotel rooms.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Actor
  • Hotel

• Though ambition in itself is a vice, yet it is often the parent of virtues.

  

  Quintilian
  • Parent
  • Ambition
  • Often

• My friends always said that I should be a comedienne - I was named my class clown.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Said

• Each game we play, every game is a championship-game mindset.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Game
  • Play
  • Mindset

• I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Remember
  • Government
  • First

• I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • People
  • Good
  • Understanding

• I collect imported teas, I have a few cupboards full! It's like wine, each has it's own flavour and you get into their little nuances.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • You
  • Like
  • Wine

• I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • War
  • Think
  • Idea

• I knew how touring was for 10 years, but it's completely different now that things are popping off.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Different
  • Years
  • Now

• Nebraskans are known for giving of themselves and that quality is part of what makes our state such a wonderful place to live, work and raise a family.

  

  Dave Heineman
  • Work
  • Live
  • Family

• If someday, in a morning, you see you, in a mirror or the dent of a spoon, and wonder Where is my soul and Where has it gone, remember this: Catch the gaze of a woman on the metro, subway, tram. Look at a man. Seek and you will find you in the silvered space, a flash between souls.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Mirror
  • Spoon
  • Dent

• After four years since the beginning of the tragedy in the Balkans, we have to recognize the painful fact that this conflict has brought nothing but grief, suffering and destruction, ... There have been no winners in this war, nor could there have been any. Everyone has lost -- the Serbs, the Croats, the Muslims and Europe as a whole.

  

  Igor Ivanov
  • War
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• America is a nation fundamentally ambivalent about its children, often afraid of its children, and frequently punitive toward its children.

  

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • Children
  • America

• What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being.

  

  Phylicia Rashad