Phyllis Diller Quotes
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Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I would love to do some theater.
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The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.
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You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
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Oh, how I treasure this freedom. I really do It's a glorious, wonderful experience. I am off marriage - for life!
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Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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It's tempting to engage in anti-gun polemics and hope that popular opinion will dramatically shift, but it is also likely a mistake. The smarter course for those who want stronger federal gun-control laws anytime soon is legislative stewardship and compromise.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with it. I wouldn't say it if I ain't think so, 'cause 'The Truth' was my baby. That's the pure album.
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I actually studied literature at university, so I'm much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.
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It fell into my lap. I grew up doing dance classes. And one day, a film production company contacted my dance school looking for background dancers. I wasn't looking for it. It just happened. And I found myself on set. And that was that.
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The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.
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One of the things the novel can do is address big questions in ways that are accessible to people. It's not that I want to teach people, but these are the things that interest me, and this is my medium for exploring ideas, and I think the potential of novels to do that is massive.
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What you did was the greatest thing accomplished by any private soldier of all of the armies of Europe.
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I would love to have been a golfer or any individual sportsman.
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A theory of cultural change is impossible without knowledge of the changing sense ratios effected by various externalizations of our senses. (p. 49)
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My mother-in-law had a pain beneath her left breast. Turned out to be a trick knee.
