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.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Want
  • Success
  • Successful

• 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.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • World
  • American
  • Same

• I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Enemy
  • Negro
  • Laboring Class

• 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.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Growing

• Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Want
  • Better

• Y'all have no idea how many times I say, 'Yes, ma'am.'

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Idea
  • How
  • Yes

• The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Walking
  • Streets
  • Nuts

• Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Cool
  • Just
  • Heroes

• 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?

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • You
  • Know
  • Maybe

• Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Interesting
  • Content

• I'm always going to love my father.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Father
  • Always
  • Going

• I remember being in tears at the hospital after Chloe was born, at the thought that someday she would have to leave home.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Home
  • She
  • Remember

• 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.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• You've got to allow yourself the things you enjoy or you'll just be miserable.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Yourself

• And Chaucer, with his infantineFamiliar clasp of things divine.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.

  

  Bill Nighy
  • Good

• I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.

  

  Marie Windsor
  • Great
  • Beautiful

• Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end, it comes down to the teachers.

  

  Kimberly Quinn
  • Important
  • Parents
  • Education

• By 1961, when I got my first copywriting job, 'my kind' were suddenly in demand. The creative revolution had begun. Advertising had turned into a business dominated by young, funny, Jewish copywriters and tough, sometimes violent, Greek and Italian art directors.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • Art
  • Business
  • Job

• Sometimes, in order to say yes to what matters most, I must say no to good things.

  

  Sue Monk Kidd
  • Good
  • Matter
  • Say

• I've never achieved spectacular success with a film. My reputation has grown slowly. I suppose you could say that I'm a successful filmmaker-in that a number of people speak well of me. But none of my films have received unanimously positive reviews, and none have done blockbuster business.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Film
  • Speak
  • Successful

• Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

  

  David Icke
  • Today

• 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.

  

  Summer Phoenix
  • Speak
  • Spanish
  • Accent