Phylicia Rashad Quotes
Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.
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As there is in Germany - as well as in Russia and Italy - no art which is not approved of by the government, any criticizing remark about the present policy made by me would easily be taken as a hostile act. I cannot have my name put up against an official report from Germany without risking very unpleasant consequences.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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No matter what happens, tennis is still tennis: You can see a lot of great matches, a lot of new people.
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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This could never be a crime in any society which deems himself enlightened.
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
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I'm pretty ruthless about that; I think when you sign over your story, you sign over your story.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.
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'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imaginations.
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I love stand-up, but the process of writing is a little more lonely. I want to keep doing both, though.
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I only started singing the Russian roles when I came west.
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I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggerated jean sizes so they hang off your back... I just don't understand it.
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People are much more loose if you are having fun. I had a basketball player who was really soft-spoken, and then we played Connect Four with him, and he really opened up!
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I respect a lot of players in this league. But to me basketball is just a little aspect of my life. I enjoy the game because it's fun. But it is a game.
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Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
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Where there is most power of feeling, there of martyrs is the greatest martyr.
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I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by melanin. When you put it that way, it sounds like a foolish reason for fame. In a just and free society it would be foolish. That I am a national figure because I was the first person in 192 years to be at once a congressman, black and a woman proves, I think, that our society is not yet either just or free.
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Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.
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Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal.
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I think the first thing is to recognize that there is an ebb and flow to your career. There are going to be moments that are really high, and then you're going to have moments where you step away for a little bit, and maybe that's just by choice or maybe you have a family.
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Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.
