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 was a good kid.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
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I was an intimate sort of child who never spoke up in groups. I preferred close friends.
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Entrepreneurs spend an inordinate amount of time inside of our own heads - thinking, analyzing, agonizing and obsessing over every little detail of our business. Sometimes, we need a break from ourselves. Meditation is a chance to let the thinking mind rest.
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When you're out of quality, you're out of business.
