Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes
When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I like being like a chameleon who transforms himself with each role.
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I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.
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I've had projects before where everyone says 'This is going to be the big thing,' and it doesn't really turn out to be. Then there is a little project you do and forget about, and then it comes out, and it's huge.
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I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.
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As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.
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Go where your customers take you! For example, did you know that Sony's first product was a rice cooker? Since abandoning the rice cooker, it has merely managed to become the world's biggest consumer electronics company.
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Ever since I was young, if somebody needs help, you help them out.
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All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.
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Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
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All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.
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The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.
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Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.
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I'm a grounded person.
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I don’t have the passion anymore, and so remember, it’s better to burn out than to fade away.
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The same sort of thing was supposed to happen when performance animation was invented: Everybody thought it would save so much time. But it became its own niche altogether.
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When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
