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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Carrying the past in to the present, we program the future to continue the past. Letting go the past in the present, we free the future to be something else.
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Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
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Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.
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There is something about a man with a beard I cannot stand. No particular reason for it. Prejudice, I suppose. I feel the same way about cats.
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We originally developed 'The Client List' along with Lifetime as a TV movie - my manager and I became partners on the project. Then, we brought in Howard Braunstein on the project and produced it along with Lifetime.
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I find myself dancing in the grocery store.
