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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That is the most stupid thing yet. I tell you that I could despair of human intelligence when I see what can exist in men’s minds.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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I got a dog with a Napoleon complex. I have a Napoleon complex. We're small. Anything big that we feel is threatening us, we want to fight. We're not a pushover.
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People want their reason for living to be a singular thing, like a career or a relationship, because this makes an individual feel secure in the physical world. We don't fare well in the realm of the invisible - so telling someone that their purpose is multilayered and includes the arduous journey of discovering who they really are is not always the answer they want to hear. But consider the complexity of the question: "What is my reason for living?" How can that question not include a journey into the depths of your own life?
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History will have to record That the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition Was not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people But the appalling silence and indifference of the good. Our generation will have to repent not Only for the words and actions of the children of darkness But also for the fears and apathy of thechildren of light.
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I will continue to freak out my children by knitting in public. It's good for them.
