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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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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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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It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.
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There is a deep connection, when we're talking about certain market forces and a legal structure that inhibits low or moderate income families from getting ahead. Eviction is part of a business model at the bottom of the market.
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If you have a good movie in hand and it is successful, you gain confidence to experiment.
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I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.
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I lived somewhat of a nomadic life, even when I lived in Ohio. We spent time in rural areas, in suburban areas, never really city areas. We rode four-wheelers. We had pigs and ferrets. And creeks. We had a creek in my backyard. It was like 'Huckleberry Finn.'
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The world is getting smaller. And people are bumping up against people from different parts of the world with very different points of view. The challenge of our time is going to be, how do you allow other points of view to exist within what you traditionally see as your world?
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When you are interviewing someone, don't just write down what he says. Ask yourself: Does this guy remind you of someone? What does the room feel like? Notice smells, voice inflection, neighborhoods you pass through. Be a cinematographer.
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I didn't want Sadness to be just one note.
