Sally Phillips Quotes

When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

Sally Phillips

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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.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Doubt

• I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• 'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Happy
  • Morning
  • Doing

• I liked 'Scream of the Banshee' because it was a real challenge. I thought, 'How am I going to pull off this character?' But, I also thought, 'Oh, man, I'm going to go for it.' He's got all the defects of character that an actor loves to play. So, I had a really great time.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Real

• 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?

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Good
  • Attention

• The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Care
  • Consciousness
  • Become

• You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Done
  • Understand
  • Appreciate

• There is no substitute for jamming and getting to know each other on the road.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Know
  • Road
  • Jamming

• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • You
  • Will
  • Anger

• I fell in love with doing yoga.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Love
  • Doing
  • Yoga

• 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.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • School
  • High
  • Knowledge

• I like power and I like to use it.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Power
  • Like
  • Use

• Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Power
  • Genius
  • Innocence

• 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.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • Together
  • Failure
  • Finish

• 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.

  

  Bam Margera
  • Thinking
  • Stupid
  • Red

• When the line started to blur between the fans and the players, sometimes things can get ugly.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Sometimes
  • Fans
  • Ugly

• 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.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Down
  • Ethical
  • Restore

• I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Women
  • Childhood
  • Surrounded

• Shakespeare feels very natural to me.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Me
  • Feels
  • Natural

• It disturbed me that the music industry had gone down the drain, even though people were listening to more music than ever and from a greater diversity of artists.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Music
  • Listening

• Its a no-brainer for me that at some point our cars will have the ability to drive themselves.

  

  Sebastian Thrun
  • Ability
  • No-Brainer

• If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Face
  • Times
  • Joke

• The person who is not strong enough gives up at the halfway point - but you are limiting yourself before even starting.

  

  Confucius
  • Starting
  • Limiting
  • Gives up

• When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Write
  • Create
  • Joke