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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Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.
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My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.
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When you are single mom - don't be afraid to get out there and date, and have a little bit of fun. We're still women... we're still feminine... and we still have needs.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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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.
