Phyllis A. Whitney Quotes
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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In real life, I'm gorgeous, beautiful.
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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People think I'm just an old Luddite, but that's untrue. I buy every new gizmo as it comes out, play with it until I understand how it works, and then give it away.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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Girls shouldn't drink because their bodies are not made for drinking and smoking.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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Having seen my mom in community volunteer work my whole life and in Congress for 25 years, it is true as she often says that she sees her service as an extension of her role as a mother and a grandmother.
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I always knew I was going to do something with music, but with my whole family being in the business, acting was something that was just mine. But when I was 20 or 21, I started writing songs and felt the itch to make a record.
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The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context.
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I'm single-minded. When I'm working on a project, all my attention is there.
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At times of crisis or distress, it's poems that people turn to. Poetry still has a power to speak to people's feelings, maybe in a way that fiction, because it works in a longer way, can't. There's a little bit of your brain that mourns and grieves that you're not writing poetry, but actually as long as I'm writing something, I'm happy.
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I wish I could think of a suitable name for the kind of writing I do.
