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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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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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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My boss treated me like a slave and I felt completely degraded. Then, just once, I did a terrible thing - I peed in his tea! Watching him drink it, my grudges completely dissolved - I never minded making tea for him again.
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The disease having been caused by allowing cleverness to displace wisdom, no amount of clever research is likely to produce a cure.
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All pitchers are born pitchers.
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[James] Baldwin said the real question is not when there will be the first Negro president in this country. The important question is what country he's going to be the president of.
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Deem no man happy until he passes the edo fhis life without suffering grief.
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Both the historian and the novelist view history as the struggle of a tiny minority, able and determined to make judgments, which is up against a vast and densely packed majority of the blind, who are led by their instincts and unable to think for themselves.
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His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.
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You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.
