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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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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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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We have four great clubs that not only represent the history of European basketball but also have an important present and a bright future.
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Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.
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I feel more comfortable in drama. Comedy is a high-wire act. I find it stressful. It's a precision science in a way.
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Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
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You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.
