Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.
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I do this thing with my daughter - I put my hand on her face and shake her head, but really affectionately. But I didn't think, and I did that to Flea.
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I'd say a good couple of my closest male friends are directors.
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Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
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I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
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I don't know why femininity should be associated with weakness. Women should be free to express who they are without thinking, 'I need to act like a man, or I need to tone it down to be successful.' That's a very good way to keep women down.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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My philosophy is generally to keep things as simple as possible.
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It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
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There are positives to moving around and changing companies: you put things in perspective; you can compare living and working conditions. Living in one city, you tend to take things for granted; your view is much more narrow. In Europe, a dancer can leave for a year and still keep her original contract.
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When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.
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The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting god to plague his creatures, per pro his chosen shits.
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I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.
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In the past, socializing men to become the best killer-protectors led to the survival of the 'fittest.' In the future, with nuclear technology, training killers is more likely to lead to the destruction of everyone.
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It seems true that the growth of science and secularism made organized Christianity feel under threat.
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I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.
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Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
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If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.
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I love the opportunity to help my patients, to work with them to find the best course of action to get them healthy and to give them the information they need to stay healthy.
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I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we want to control them and not vice versa.
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When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!' when it came to Toronto. Just getting the role shocked my whole family, and I don't think I realized until then just how much I loved getting up in front of people and performing.
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I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.
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I don't outline; I listen to a kind of whisper inside the material.
