Summer Phoenix (Summer Joy Phoenix) Quotes
I'm good with accents and stuff; it's mostly that I have a really good Spanish accent, so it sounds like I speak a lot better than I do.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'
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The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room' into the asking price. There's a price war out there and you have to win it from the get-go.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
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Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?
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Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.
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Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.
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I'm always going to love my father.
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I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.
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Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.
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You've got to allow yourself the things you enjoy or you'll just be miserable.
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Billy Wilder once told me, 'Make 'em personal,' ... 'But make 'em for the people.'
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can.
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When I write, I actually hear the characters speak. Almost like an actor - even though I'm not an actor at all - getting into their truth and to justify what they do.
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I don't need any support, advice, or compassion, because even if I am the most ruinous man, I still feel so powerful, so strong and fierce. For I am the only one that lives without hope.
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I'm good with accents and stuff; it's mostly that I have a really good Spanish accent, so it sounds like I speak a lot better than I do.
