Phyllis Diller Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Right now, I'm not really thinking about marriage.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
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'Power' is really such a good show that I forget I'm in it sometimes.
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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I love the word 'dearth,' by the way. It's one of my favorite words.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.
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Evil is an attack against human spiritual development and enlightenment. All evil, badness, neurosis - it has one motive and one motive only, which is to destroy - to destroy your chance of arising above yourself.
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Grace can and does have a history.
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You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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You know I am done lying. Obscuring the truth is no longer something I have any interest in doing. I want it all to come out. The good, the bad, the ugly.
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I grew up in youth programs in Chicago, so they are definitely close to my heart. It is all about helping kids and giving back to a sport that has given me so much.
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Honesty is very sexy.
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Mary Hart says she meant to stay on 'Entertainment Tonight' for three years. She was on for 29.
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There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.
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My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.
