Jeanne Phillips Quotes
People who write to 'Dear Abby' don't always have the most earthshaking problems in the world.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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The ghastly thing about being a producer is that, once the curtain goes up, there is nothing you can do. At least when you are in it, you have some measure of control. If something goes wrong, you can maybe put it right. When you are in the audience, there is nothing you can do.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
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He who gives love, receives love.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'. But they do. Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
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Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I learned that round four of a major is really not too much different than rounds one through three. I didn't keep to my game plan in the '08 U.S. Women's Open for the final round. That won't happen again!
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Too many people I've loved dearly have left this earth. And some I've lost are still here breathing the same air. That grief can be comparable if not worse in its consumption.
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I heard the news today, oh boy.
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I think that's what I really liked about Narc: My character has a real operatic range in a way that older movies used to have.
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People who write to 'Dear Abby' don't always have the most earthshaking problems in the world.
