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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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 F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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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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And Chaucer, with his infantineFamiliar clasp of things divine.
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.
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You have to just figure out how to let it roll off of you, because no matter who you are or what you do, somebody's always going to disagree with something that you're doing or saying or something that you think or believe.
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When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
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I would love to adopt a child from a Spanish speaking country, because I want to have Spanish in the home.
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I am angry when I hear things like Cheney whispering into Bush's ear on the way to Obama's inauguration to ask him to pardon 'Scooter' Libby and not to 'leave a soldier on the battlefield'. What kind of metaphor is that for his petty partisan views, when you have men and women giving the ultimate sacrifice? I have nothing but contempt.
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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.
