John Phillips Quotes
It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
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I just think that you have to believe in yourself and you have to work very hard. You can't ever think that you're the best thing since sliced bread because I promise you, there are going to be Viola Davises and Jessica Chastains and Emma Stones who are the best thing since sliced bread. So take it seriously, but don't take it too seriously.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Auditions make me nervous; any time I have to perform, I get stage fright.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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Jason Momoa became a really good friend of ours when he played Khal Drogo. We loved hanging out with Momoa, and suddenly we couldn't bring him to Belfast anymore.
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Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.
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I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.
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When you're young you don't think, 'This person is going to change your life.' But when you start recording your own songs, it comes back and reminds you.
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My parents would always tell you that I was the crazy princess growing up. I was a drama queen.
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The reaction that I got from 'Diamonds' I would have expected to get from 'House of the Rising Sun' or one of the other songs.
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Dating is all about the chase. It's fun!
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There are no gentlemen in anything competitive - you want to win.
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You have to be willing to be afraid if you're going to be an artist.
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Balancing school, acting, and a social life can be difficult.
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It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
