Phil Donahue (Phillip John "Phil" Donahue) Quotes
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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I live for my work, apart from my family who come first. And I live to tell stories and pretend to be other people, it's something I've been doing since I was 3 years old. Maybe it's because I'm intrinsically bored with myself, and I find other people more interesting.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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We'll support anyone who's doing something fresh.
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I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
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At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.'
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I started mountain-bike riding two years ago, which is much better than riding a stationary bike in the gym. Mountain biking is a total body workout.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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Looking back now toward the startYou said you thought I'd lost my pathAnd I asked if you still considered love an artAnd you said "No, I think it's more a craft"And I just turned and laughedI just had to turn and laugh.
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I can't change the way I am … but if I offended you, good. Cause I still don't give a fuck.
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The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it...but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity.
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Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.
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I'm not a perfect human being.
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Real people do real things. A collective of a whole bunch of people who do things in their own locale, in their own neighborhoods - the sum is bigger than the parts, and the parts will grow.
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Nothing will work unless you do.
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If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.
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I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.
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The producer, in effect, has to work as a translator. You form a very tight relationship with the director and writer from the beginning, and then you are constantly communicating to the various people that begin to come into the process, as you are trying to manage to hold on to a vision that needs to be communicated over a long period of time.
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It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.
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I just want to do a good job with each role that I take and continue to better myself as an actress because that's what I love about this job... being able to act and work with so many different people on such a wide range of projects.
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In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.
