Phyllis Diller Quotes
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I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
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I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
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Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
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When I'm recording my album, I want to be acting, or when I'm on set, I want to be making music. I guess we'll see how it turns out and which one overpowers the other... but I couldn't really see my life without them, both of them.
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
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Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
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Since I was in my early twenties, at ABC, I was always only interested in things that were not already being done.
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I go to New York to see live shows, not movies.
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I have one of the worst voices in the history of recorded time.
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He's a threat to win until his brain turns to tapioca.
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.
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I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.
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I like being part of a big company's executive team. It's fun to stretch other parts of my brain, considering questions like, 'How should we think of acquisitions?' I get to be privy to things that would never come up at a small company.
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Every actor's deepest desire is to reach a huge audience. So, I don't look down upon commercial cinema... there's a beauty in it that you understand sooner or later.
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I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.
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A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords from the hand of God and deal out murderous blows.
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I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
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I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
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I left 'Law and Order' because I really honestly did want to do movies and did want to be a movie star since I was a little girl.
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You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.
