Phyllis Smith Quotes
Listen, if there's anything we need more of in this world, it's something that has a better ending or is more positive.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I love anything to do with history.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
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Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I'm evangelical.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
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When it comes to taxation, Americans are still banging out letters on a typewriter and dropping them in the mail box while everybody else has moved on to texting and Instagram.
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Iraq may get peace and stability through restoring it's sovereignty under participation of all Iraqi factions and sectarian groups, who must rebuild a new democratic, free and independent Iraq.
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The instant case involves liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions.... Bowers was not correct when it was decided, and it is not correct today.... As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
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For the very first time, viewers will be able to watch their favorite shows before the rest of the world.
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Listen, if there's anything we need more of in this world, it's something that has a better ending or is more positive.
