Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes
I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I'm a musician at heart, I know I'm not really a singer. I couldn't compete with real singers. But I sing because the public buys it.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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I'm not afraid to die - it's just that I had so much left to do in this world.
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I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.
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The last thing I would ever do is try to become a network programmer.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.
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I like that about London. It comes together when it needs to, and it has magic.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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I was a temp secretary for a long time, and I went at it with a passion, and I tried to do a nice job in all my jobs.
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Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him.
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Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
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At the very beginning, I was a page at Letterman, and I freelanced for any place that would let me write any word. I wanted to do this so badly. Then when I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it.
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Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.
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I like raconteurs; I like conversation. I liked the 'Tonight Show' when it was 90 minutes, I like when people aren't plugging things per se, and they're just in the moment being interesting.
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I have a job to do, I have a wife and child to take care of. So I don't pay attention to things that I don't know anything about. I've got my own situation to deal with.
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I tell my students that being a writer is like being a member of a medieval guild and that what we are doing is very subversive and very important.
