Phyllis Smith Quotes
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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I think music docs could turn off some people.
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Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
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My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'
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Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.
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If you are too nice, you will just get eaten alive. The football world is not always a nice place.
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I don't really know what the prerequisites are for Bollywood, but I do believe I can be successful in anything I choose to do.
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As an emotional eater, I eat to soothe.
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I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.
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I've been doing extremely dangerous activities for a long time, but I've been lucky enough to have survived so far. However, sooner or later we all die... and, if that's the case, I want to die doing what I love to do the most. That's how I view death.
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I would never do anything to undermine my husband's point of view.
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Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
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She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.
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My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.
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I'm the kind of person who, if I see a shooting star, I wouldn't stay there and watch it. I'd run to my friends and tell them because I would want everyone to see it too.
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I'd always wanted to do an R&B and soul record; a friend with a studio asked to come by and record a couple of songs, maybe just make a 45. Then the songs started to pour out, and pretty soon we had eight or 10 songs down.
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There's the job and then there's my family. There's very little time beyond that for friends.
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I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.
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As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.
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I think, the first time I played Iago at the Public Theater, I realized I had a - much to my chagrin - I realized I had an instinct for these conflicted characters, for these torn characters, for these characters who could be described as evil. I wouldn't describe them that way.
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I started doing motivational tours. I've seen all kinds of people, from the CEOs to the lowest executive, opening up to their fears. We don't introspect as much as we should.
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The thing that's wonderful about social media is that we are able to give a voice to the voiceless and to help educate each other. I benefit from it as much as I provide those lessons.
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I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.
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I find myself dancing in the grocery store.
