Phyllis Smith Quotes
When we were doing 'The Office,' there was an area backstage where they worked on hair and makeup, and I was sitting there waiting to get ready to go on, and one of the writers went, 'I want you to audition for 'Bad Teacher.'' I went, 'Okay!'
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A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I can't just say one time of the year I'm going to do something different. I have to commit to a lifestyle behavioral change and just try to be a little bit better today than I was yesterday.
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I love anything to do with history.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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You've always got to have the right blend of colour. You'd be silly to match a yellow t-shirt with a light green pair of trousers, you know? You can wear different colours at the same time, and as long as they blend with each other then it works. That's what I like.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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I'm a cereal girl. I have always loved my cereal ever since I was a kid.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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For a time during the early settlement of this country peace and goodwill prevailed, only to be followed later by violent and relentless warfare.
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I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'
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When I was young, football and theatre were the only places I was happy. I remember school as just what happened in between the things that I liked.
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It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
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When we were doing 'The Office,' there was an area backstage where they worked on hair and makeup, and I was sitting there waiting to get ready to go on, and one of the writers went, 'I want you to audition for 'Bad Teacher.'' I went, 'Okay!'
