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 was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young – most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.
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I've been doing this career for a really long time, but there was not a lot of reason, at the time when I wrote 'Fight Song,' to believe that I should keep going.
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I'm not an entrepreneur. I'm not a CEO. I'm a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter.
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In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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A lot of my lyrics are approximate meaning without me knowing why they sound right.
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I like to write about beautiful places, interesting places to me.
