Phyllis Smith Quotes

I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.

Phyllis Smith

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• Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Oil
  • Fish

• I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Space
  • Here
  • Sold

• What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Love
  • Space
  • Media

• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
  • First

• The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.

  

  Manika
  • Know
  • Kind
  • Travel

• Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • High
  • Death
  • Moral

• When attempting to make a plea for more peace in the world at a rock concert, we are reflecting the feelings of all those we have come in contact with so we may all have a better understanding of each other.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • May
  • Peace

• I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Character
  • Defending

• I developed a resistance to authority. Not to discipline - I learned that. But to authority. I like to think for myself. And I like to cause trouble.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Discipline

• The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.

  

  Fay Weldon
  • People
  • Individual
  • Greatest

• I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Gift

• We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from it. I think you can absolutely do that. It's more about hair colour and complexion.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • People
  • Hair
  • Red

• Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Believe
  • Inside

• I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Up
  • War
  • Culture

• Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.

  

  Cai Guo-Qiang
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Gravity

• It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Focus
  • Training
  • Fighter

• Conceptual art, I don't even know what that is.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Art
  • Know
  • Conceptual

• I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Real
  • Team
  • Learning

• I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Taken
  • Couple
  • Dance

• My mum enrolled me in this free dance class because I had so much energy in the night-time, and she just wanted me to go to sleep. I ended up falling in love with dancing, singing, acting, the whole entertainment world. Then, my mum ended up taking on an extra job so she could fund me to take singing lessons or go to drama classes.

  

  Mel B Spice Girls
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• It's the great male fantasy-all it takes is one dance to know that she's the one. All it takes is the sound of her song from the tower, or a look at her sleeping face. And right away you know-this is the girl in your head, sleeping or dancing or singing in front of you. Yes, girls want princes, but boys want their princesses just as much.

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Great
  • She
  • Song

• Burn that one to the ground, Violet, and dance on the ashes. And damn anyone who tells you it’s selfish to do so.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Dance
  • Selfish
  • Burn

• I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Dance
  • Ballet