Phil Crosby (Philip Bayard "Phil" Crosby) Quotes
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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People need songs to belt out in the shower. Even if everyone else doesn't need that, I need that.
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Breaking is when someone starts to laugh in the middle of a scene, which is so fun to watch.
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.
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Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.
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Some of the hip-hop stuff people get into is exciting, because there's a passion and there's something to explain to a more mainstream audience, so you get these passionate writers who want to express their love for rap and hip-hop, which is cool.
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Concerning the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, collaborators and partners and not as spies, traitors and wayward children. You can never develop a science that way, only an orthodox church.
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Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.
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New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.
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Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.
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I'm a morning bird. I love getting up before it's light out if it's possible. I wake up, I have a black coffee. I'm an 86-year-old man. I try to work out first thing to get it over with. When I do it, I feel good because I have the endorphins all day.
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I love music, and I love acting, so if I can just live and be able to do those two things, I can be happy, you know?
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It's very important to surround yourself with people you can learn from.
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That made me feel good, not to go to a resort where outside the door is extreme poverty.
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Everyone procrastinates. The difference between high performers and low performers is largely determined by what they choose to procrastinate on. Since you must procrastinate anyway, decide today to procrastinate on low-value activities.
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In our experience, what we have found is the rare commodity is a good management team. And good management teams manage through good and bad cycles and manage to grow their business over a long period of time.
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For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
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When you're out of quality, you're out of business.
