Jeanne Phillips Quotes
People who write to 'Dear Abby' don't always have the most earthshaking problems in the world.Jeanne Phillips
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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.
Ira Glass -
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.
Nancy Johnson -
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.
Kate O'Mara -
I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
Vicki Lawrence -
I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
Victor Hugo -
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.
Ian Jackson
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But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
Patrick Geddes -
He who gives love, receives love.
Omar Torrijos Herrera -
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.
Ed Miliband -
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
Patrick Stewart -
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.
Barbara Kingsolver -
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.
Yasmine Al Masri
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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.
Yiannis Chryssomallis -
I don't mind what the role is at all; I just want to play cool characters.
Daniel Cudmore -
Every man I meet is in some way my superior.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Kate Grenville -
The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
Iain McGilchrist -
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro
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Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
Laura Schlessinger -
You acquire certain tastes. And if your taste happens to coincide with the majority of people, then you're in pretty good shape. But you're not always right. There were times when I stubbed my toe, and some will end up being on my tombstone - like 'Supertrain.'
Fred Silverman -
Ronald Reagan knew who he was. Barack Obama is still working through that equation politically.
Joe Scarborough -
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
Djuna Barnes -
Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
Wendell Phillips -
People who write to 'Dear Abby' don't always have the most earthshaking problems in the world.
Jeanne Phillips