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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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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Consistency is very important when you're making films.
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I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
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It comes down to cost, condition and space as to why the pool is closing. It's time to take action.
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Jay was intimidating to the point where I was totally intimidated before I even got to the booth. But I was like, this is going to be a test of my mettle. In the South, I'm regarded as the guy who, quote unquote, out-rapped Jay-Z.
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I think if you've been invited to someone's house, you eat what they serve you. Even if you leave hungry, you be gracious enough to eat what they've prepared.
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A consensus politician is someone who does something that he doesn't believe is right because it keeps people quiet when he does it.
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I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.
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You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.
