Phil Crosby (Philip Bayard "Phil" Crosby) Quotes
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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You have to be willing to ask questions that almost no one else would ask.
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I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
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He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
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Discovery is fun. I am incredibly open to everything.
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I admired anyone who could unsettle people.
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I don't have a goal. I don't limit myself to a goal.
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White racial grievance enjoys automatic credibility, and even when disproven, it is never disqualifying of its bearers.
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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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Like all sciences, chemistry is marked by magic moments. For someone fortunate enough to live such a moment, it is an instant of intense emotion: an immense field of investigation suddenly opens up before you.
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The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.
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What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
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I am inclined to believe that few attacks either of ridicule or invective make much noise, but by the help of those they provoke.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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I have been offered obscene amounts to do commercials and stage shows abroad, but as a matter of principle, I am against them.
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Music always turns into music. As soon as I play a key, push a key down, there's no theory any more. When I go and I hear a sound on the keyboard, all theories go out the window.
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To be free is of the essence of every intellectual being.
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Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.
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If we deliver on time, but the product has defects, we have not delivered on time.
