Phyllis Diller Quotes
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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My dad is afraid of my laugh.
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I have a very wonderfully, bizarrely amazing relationship with my mother in that we've been through a myriad of emotions because we've acted together and played all these different kinds of mother-daughters.
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You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.
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I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I'm a child of the Sixties.
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If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.
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I think it's important for scientists to speak in their own voices and not just be mediated by journalists or others speaking for them.
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I'm not comfortable with categorizing my own work, but I don't mind if others talk about it in relation to genre as long as they don't try to hold it up to some genre standard.
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It sounds extraordinary but it's a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
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I've been around since I was 19, I won the Oscar when I was 21, I've had a couple of TV series. I've continued to work despite the predictions of some naysayers.
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I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.
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I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
