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'm famous for splurging at fast-food places. I'm currently obsessed with Taco Bell's bean and cheese burritos with extra green sauce and extra cheese. Gluttony!
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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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Sometimes, of course, there's no quick way to make it through immigration: Different airports have gluts of incoming flights at different times of day, and short of rearranging your flight schedule to ensure you'll land at a low-traffic hour, there's nothing you can do.
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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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I feel like... I don't have a wife, I don't have a kids, but... I see rappers and I'm like, I know that's fake. I know how much you make, this is all bullshit. But people are buying into it, and you shouldn't have that power. I'm legit trying to make honest moves so that all of us can grow. I want to make a show where my sister can work on and become a producer because she can't get in, no one's leting her. I want to make things where people can actually grow. A place where people can actually be honest.
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Sometimes I'll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don't always look like a little Barbie doll.
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Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
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It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.
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Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.
