Jeanne Phillips Quotes
Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I try very hard to handle things equally: ideas, materials, and images.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I've had the same barber since I was about 14 years old.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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The more times I was turned down, the more I believed I was getting closer to making it. A lot of people in Korea say that failure is the mother of success, so I believed that more times I failed, the more likely I was to succeed.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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I never bought the idea of individual genius from which the novel spews forth. It's always an act of curation.
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I was at Yale from 1953 to 1957, and I tried to commit suicide in my freshman year because I was gay, and I thought I was the only person in the school who was. I was just totally and utterly miserable.
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Ambivalence is like carbon monoxide - undetectable yet deadly.
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I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder.
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Better to die than live in sleep.
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Many people with physical disabilities have romantic lives and good marriages to partners who see past their disabilities and recognize all of the things they can do.
