Phylicia Rashad Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I am doing what I love; acting is what I love best after being a mother.
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I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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You know how you put peanut butter on a piece of bread and the bread falls - it never falls on the bread side down, it always falls peanut butter side down. That's because of gravity.
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Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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I have spent much of my life where the boys are, first as a tomboy and then on Wall Street. Growing up, I loved every and any sport. I was frustrated by girls who didn't, so I spent most of my afternoons with the boys.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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It's different playing in a studio than it is playing live, of course.
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I just want to be myself, and I really, like, can't say I'm sorry for it. I just can't.
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Background singers who are any good have to be great imitators.
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There is no shortage of embarrassing facts about healthcare, and people die every day in the U.S. due to preventable errors - would you fly planes if you knew several of them would drop out of the sky every day?
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When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.
