Jayne Anne Phillips Quotes
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditional American holiday experience that I never had growing up.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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I would hate for my father to regret all his support that he's given me over the years and be embarrassed by anything I chose to do.
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People don't appreciate that when you're on the Internet, it's a 24/7 job. Even if you're not releasing episodes, your show is living and breathing on the Internet because there's a community around it. Ninety percent of the work is after the web series is shot, and you have to constantly maintain your community, because it's all you have.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
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A lot of reality TV is repellent, but that doesn't diminish the qualities of some of the people who take part. There are decent people in there who have no alternatives.
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I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it.
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Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?
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A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.
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Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance.
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If someone can make money from you, you can do more things, and eventually, you can do things you come up with.
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I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
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I wish I had more time to write.
