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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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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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'm happy that people have watched and appreciated my work. That's why I'm doing it.
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I think the police are a major part of the glue that holds civilised life together. They're not highly paid.
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Back in the '30s, '40s and '50s, you had clear-cut heroes, clear-cut supervillains. Today, you have more of a blend, more of a gray area between the two. You have the rise of the sympathetic villain and the rise of the antihero.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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The only realistic view is that a human life arises gradually, which is not much help in making personal decisions or devising public policy.
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I wish I had more time to write.
