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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Tears at times have the weight of speech.
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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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You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.
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Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.
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There were certain impressions I wanted to fix. I read verse models but none seemed to suitably express that kind of impression..until I came to read French vers libre which seemed to eactly fitr the case.
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I cannot even picture myself retiring. What would I do? I'll always be doing something, asking somebody questions, even if there weren't a book.
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If someone said, 'You can go live in this little town in Costa Rica for a couple of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to play arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing repetition of that kind of line.
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I find myself dancing in the grocery store.
