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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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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We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
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I never wanted to be a movie star.
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I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.
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My dad loves to eat, and he loves everything I make!
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The difference with me is that I did inhale.
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I developed that for a long time. I also developed 'Sugar Sweet Science' at New Line and that didn't happen. That was a boxing movie. And between all that there were a couple of other things.
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The 'low' quality of many American films, and of much American popular culture, induces many art lovers to support cultural protectionism. Few people wish to see the cultural diversity of the world disappear under a wave of American market dominance.
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I wish I had more time to write.
