Phyllis Smith Quotes
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an R and B band.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.
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Most reporters are so transactional rather than strategic.
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It's not easy to play 162 games and be focused the whole time. It takes a lot out of you.
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I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.
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We will have to continue to improve our human intelligence system-something that was, unfortunately, lacking in the years which led up to September 11. This is going to be a continuing process of change.
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I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other.
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Music is my form of cleansing and introspection, so I have to grow in order to accomplish it.
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The discipline as a dancer carried over into my life.
