Sally Phillips Quotes
When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.
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There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.
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I fell in love with doing yoga.
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I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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I'm on a lot of airplanes, so I just sip on red wine thinking of stupid ideas and, when I think of it, I wanna make it happen.
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When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.
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Obama was expected to restore an ethical sheen to post-9/11 foreign policy, but he has intensified drone warfare in Yemen and Pakistan, pursued whistle-blowers, and failed to close down Guantanamo.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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But like Mrs. Ford, I think that the more people realize what a difficult and what an insidious disease it is, the sooner people will start to correct that situation.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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Hindi films are so deceptive. I thought Mumbai was this big, grand, beautiful city with sea-facing flats.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
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Noir is where the clarity of moral divisions break down, the black and whites turn into grays.
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I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
