Phyllis Smith Quotes
Sadness is a necessary emotion. It's maybe not the most pleasant one to have, but it's cathartic.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.
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I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
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You have to be the parent; you can't be their friend.
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I molded myself against le Front National. Against hate speech, be it racist, sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic. Against the kind of injustice I faced during my own life.
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I have created a new genre. It is a soulful creation that comes straight from my heart.
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A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.
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I was at my best at a little past forty, when I was a professor at Oxford.
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I'm committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.
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I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!
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The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
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I think I can see more clearly now - about how the pattern of past experiences has shaped who I am and the characters I have played - and I'm grateful for that.
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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
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The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment.
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The novel, the novel proper that is, is about people's treatment of each other, and so it is about human values.
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We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment.
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Actually, a myth is a story that is not just not true, but it's a story that is especially true. And I think the myth of Jesus is especially true.
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I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.
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Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.
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Can the mind resolve a psychological problem immediately?
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What attracts me to material are characters that I know - characters that I know people don't know but I know - and bringing them to the screen. Spotlighting voices that have not been heard before on screen.
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Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
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Sadness is a necessary emotion. It's maybe not the most pleasant one to have, but it's cathartic.
