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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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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Netflix has always had this interesting ability to get non-mainstream content to be watched by the mainstream.
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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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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.
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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.
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In my Spanish cloak,And old slouch hat,And overshoes of felt,And Tyke, my faithful dog,And my knotted hickory cane,I slipped about with a bull's-eye lanternFrom door to door on the square
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If I am selling to you, I speak your language. If I am buying, dann müssen sie Deutsch sprechen.
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One of the reasons I took up the guitar was I didn't want to speak to anybody. I really felt uncomfortable speaking to people, so I took the guitar up so I could hide behind it. I'm not comfortable explaining things, because my brain doesn't work that way.
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There is no failure in God's will, and no success outside of God's will.
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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.
