Phil Collen Quotes
I just really have a problem with people stereotyping in any shape or form. So yeah, I never really wanted to do that. You know I'm married to a black woman and people get surprised when you say that. They expect you to have some big, blonde, busty chick.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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January 14, 2000, was my first time on stage, and I've been hooked ever since. I got discovered nationally in Seattle by the now-defunct HBO Comedy Festival, and that led to an appearance on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' and a path to a professional comedy career.
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I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.
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There have been weeks when I've not been hydrating properly or not eating properly or training too hard. When I do that, I don't feel good. It has to be the exact formula.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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I feel that I communicate best when I am not deliberately being linear. Along this same line, I feel some of the best sermons I've ever heard were in the theatre rather than the pulpit - as, for example, in the Theatre of the Absurd.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings.
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The happiest is he who suffers the least pain; the most miserable, he who enjoys the least pleasure.
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You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
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Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.
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In love, there is no distinction between success and failure. If love remains then even separation is union otherwise even union is separation.
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I just really have a problem with people stereotyping in any shape or form. So yeah, I never really wanted to do that. You know I'm married to a black woman and people get surprised when you say that. They expect you to have some big, blonde, busty chick.
