Phyllis Smith Quotes
In today's world, everyone's so clued into their iPhones, and communication is going by the wayside as far as one-on-one is concerned. It's very seldom that I walk into a room and parents make their children say hello and have a social grace with one another.
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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.
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Afghanistan is a country in need. Afghanistan needs to protect itself in the region; Afghanistan needs to secure itself within the country. Afghanistan needs to develop its forces, and Afghanistan needs to provide stability to the people.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Sometimes when you're with somebody, and all their stuff is at your house, it's so hard to break up with them.
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It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call bluegrass, but what they're calling country music today I'm not sure that I would call country music. But I love music and I try to encourage people.
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In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success-if you are willing to learn from it.
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It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.
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Maybe a friend is someone who wants your updates. Even if they're boring. Or sad. Or annoyingly cutesy. A friend says “Sign me up for your boring crap, yes indeed”-because he likes you anyways. He'll tolerate your junk.
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Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.
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In today's world, everyone's so clued into their iPhones, and communication is going by the wayside as far as one-on-one is concerned. It's very seldom that I walk into a room and parents make their children say hello and have a social grace with one another.
