Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes
I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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It's a political and manipulative industry. Actors vie for the same roles, movies are snatched away. Have I ever been manipulated? Yes. But I haven't manipulated anyone because if you think from the heart, you cannot be calculative. I have spent nights crying.
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Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.
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A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
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We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
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I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
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Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.
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I don't get dressed up every day. I'm very busy. I get really annoyed when people talk about me as a 'fashionista.' I get dressed up when I have to go out. Most of the time, I'm running around in jeans.
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Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice level or the complexity of a particular dish. So, it was always like we're going to kick this up a little bit.
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We do spend time talking about it and we puzzle through it together. We ride the roller coasters together - the high highs and the low lows.
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Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.
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I feel like I have the fortune of privilege, particularly as it relates to my children.
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I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.
