John L. Phillips Quotes
It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
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When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I'm not a Facebook/Twitter gal, but my husband is.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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In college, I was a huge fan of 'Les Miserables.' I seem to remember that people who were into French literature preferred Hugo's poetry.
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My mum brought me up to think that personal happiness is more important than your family.
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Using official government resources to help bankroll an explicit political agenda - whether on the right or left - is flat out wrong.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single event that really changed the way I felt about music. Up to that point, I hadn't really thought of myself as more serious musician, and I didn't really have that much interest in pop music.
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People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.
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One of the reasons I chose to come to Liverpool was because of the mentality of the club. It's a working club and a working city. I don't know why, but I feel like one of the people here. They recognise me and wish me luck, but in Spain, they surround you and you can't do anything. I think they're happy with me here.
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I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
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During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions.
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We find no vestige of a beginning - no prospect of an end.
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It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.
