Phyllis Smith Quotes
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I used to be a drummer in a band, and I really loved playing the drums, so I look forward to the right opportunity to do that at some point. Maybe even on TV. Every single live performance I'm doing on TV, I want it to be different and unique.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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It's easier, as a white person, to be silent about racial injustice. It's easier. On paper. But it's not easier on the whole, because injustice affects all of us, whether we know it or not, whether we acknowledge it or not.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York.
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I had two different degrees: One in International Relations/Political Science and another degree in Radio and Television Production.
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I want to do just, like, regular art. Whatever is made today on canvas goes up against all of art history. It's the most radical thing.
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Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.
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The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
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The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.
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It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they're done working. I still find that entertaining.
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It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.
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Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
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Se puede no deber nada devolviendo la luz al sol.
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We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex as are the clothing, the manners, and the form of headdress that a society at a given period assigns to either sex.
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When I was in high school, there was no safe haven, there was no outlet for you to speak your mind.
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Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
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I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.
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Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.
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The ultimate freedom depends on knowing the ultimate Truth. Truth is not what people say it is, it is what it is. And Truth, quite remarkably, sets one free, just like philosophers have said down the ages.
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I didn't want Sadness to be just one note.
