Phyllis A. Whitney Quotes
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.
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Somebody like Bowie was so interesting because when you got him off stage, he was like a businessman. But on stage, he was just dazzling. It was like watching butterflies grow.
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I love interesting people with eccentric stories and outsiders of the world.
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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.
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Dixie Chicks surprised me with a beautiful three-part harmony version of 'I'll Take Care of You.' And Don Henley's performance of 'The Heart of the Matter' still just slays me every time I hear it.
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I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
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Mrs. Obama is not a great beauty. But she is so interesting-looking - so bright. That will always take you farther.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.
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It was just this interesting, my first, the first time you hear your child in any way criticise you. It's the worst review of your life and it's really relieving to find out that they don't know what they're saying.
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I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.
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I have a huge Lego collection - I have a really big Lego collection. We're talking pretty darn large. I also have a huge collection of original stainless steel Thomas the Tank Engine train toys. Beautiful little trains; they're my favorite thing in the world.
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We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
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I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I'd just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful.
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Crime is interesting. It's huge and fascinating, and it's what my business, TV and film, is largely based on. But the realities are tragic, and in crime drama you rarely see the pain of bereavement or any consequences. It's reduced to a chess game.
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'The Daily Show' took a topic - politics - which many people considered to be boring, confusing, or even annoying to learn about, and found a way to make it interesting, digestible, and fun. I believe 'Bill Nye Saves the World' can do the same for science.
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Filmmaking, I often like to say, is like Russian roulette. You never know what you'll get. The only thing you can do is find solace in the fact that, irrespective of the film's response, you work hard to make the money you do.
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So we'll see you in Paradise?
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Maybe climate change is a threat, and maybe climate change has been tarted up by climatologists trolling for research grant cash. It doesn't matter.
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I like to write about beautiful places, interesting places to me.
