Phyllis George Quotes
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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Two young actresses I admire are Emma Stone and Emma Watson, because they are intelligent, talented actresses and have a great sense of humor. They have learned to balance what they love in life - acting, school and everything else.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.
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And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
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You're allowed to make things for women on television, and there's not like... you don't have to go through the humiliation of having made something directed at women. There it's just accepted, whereas if it's a feature, it's like 'So, talk to me about chick flicks.' It's like... I don't think you want to hear my opinion about this.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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As I view the Republicans in Congress, I don't see them as a real reflection of many Republicans in our country.
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Food is my favourite thing in the world. I always say if I ate what I actually wanted to eat I'd be in one of those electronic scooters because I'd be too big.
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It requires genius to make a good pun - some men of bright parts can't reach it.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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The 'Chronicles of Narnia' have been favourites of mine since my childhood when I misread 'Aslan' as 'Alsatian' and was struck by the genius of naming a lion after a dog!
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When the great jazz and blues clubs closed - joints where the cash register rang loudly and there wasn't ESPN on TV over the bandstand, and people smoked cigarettes and drank whiskey and hollered 'Play on!' - When those places closed, I was pretty much done.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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As I always said: I fell in with David Jones. I did not fall in love with David Bowie.
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I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
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Life is what you make it: If you snooze, you lose; and if you snore, you lose more.
