Phyllis Theroux Quotes
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I do hot yoga and TRX, a kind of suspension training.
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The government in Turkey, which represents the powerful, traditionalist mass, is very comfortable creating policies tailored only for their supporters.
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Nothing can make you more humble than pain.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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Career had a lot to do with 80 percent of my breakups. It's very tough to date a struggling musician. The idea of it is enticing and fun and mysterious. But the reality is long hours and hard work. I have a lot of respect for the women I've dated.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I'm down for adventure and up for anything.
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You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.
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Clothes are designed for the media, because it's a great show.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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Darkness... When everything that you know and love is taken from you so harshly, all you can think about is anger, hatred, and even revenge. And no one can save you.
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I don't want to have to earn love by giving up my ability to make decisions that determine how I live.
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People value and spend their money more wisely when they acquire it by their own efforts - also known as work.
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All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another, and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.
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Real love opens doors to something larger than oneself.
