Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I just wonder where I was when the talent was being given out, like George Benson, Kenny Burrell, Eric Clapton... oh, there's many more! I wouldn't want to be like them, you understand, but I'd like to be equal, if you will.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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I'd rather work all night and sleep all day... perhaps I was a mole in my last incarnation.
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I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
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I like to tread uncharted territory and push myself in terms of performance.
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No man fails who does his best.
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I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.
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When I was in school, I used to look out the window and see the big red double-deck buses driving by. It just looked so free.
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I fell into this business by accident. It wasn't something I ever aspired to be: an actress. It just happened. It has evolved into an insane passion... a creative outlet. But nothing more. It's my hobby... one of the ways I express myself as an artist. And the day it becomes a job... a career... I will quit...
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If you have an impulse, not if you're going to ruin someone elses' scene, if you have an impulse of a funny little add-on or taking something in a weird direction, try it.
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I recognize that knitting can improve my mood in trying circumstances
