Phyllis Theroux Quotes
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I worry about whether SBA programs are still doing what they are meant to do - support lenders who fund good business startups and good expansion plans.
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I lose film roles because I'm a person who doesn't keep quiet about certain things. But if my heart tells me something is wrong, I'm going to go and do something about it.
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Dishonesty is all about the small acts we can take and then think, 'No, this not real cheating.' So if you think that the main mechanism is rationalization, then what you come up with, and that's what we find, is that we're basically trying to balance feeling good about ourselves.
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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.
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My parents and my brother instilled in me my sense of humor. That's kind of the way we communicate with each other, and it's always been a way for me to get to know people.
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I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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Dior Couture is like art - they are the art pieces of a fashion house. Each piece is unique and made by hand.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
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There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
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I don't drink coffee.
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Acknowledging your mistakes also has its pluses, but we often don't have trouble recalling or mulling over those. The point is, if you don't acknowledge your successes the same way you acknowledge your mistakes, you're sure to have a memory full of blunders.
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I always say, as an actress, I get to portray the human condition, but as an activist, I get to change the human condition.
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The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
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You’re still young. Being a true loser takes years of inaptitude.
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We stayed very close to each other [with Leek Kirk], and Lee was amazing. We'd go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. He was just easy to work with. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.
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We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.
