Summer Phoenix (Summer Joy Phoenix) Quotes

I've never had a diamond before, and now I've got a diamond surrounded by other diamonds and diamonds in places where, frankly, you don't need diamonds at all, and I would have been happy with a piece of twine.

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• I don't quite know how to put it into words, but I feel for the audience that I have; I know them.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Words
  • Know
  • Audience

• There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • World
  • Religious

• What I always loved about theater is that that's an experience that a company of actors just sinks itself into for weeks, and you really get to work on the material, and by the time you're in front of an audience, you really own it.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Time
  • Work
  • Experience

• I enjoy racing because I want to do it. No one's forcing me.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Want
  • Me
  • Enjoy

• The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Question

• I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • Want
  • Acting
  • Constant

• I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Advice
  • Act
  • Welcome

• In our world of sleek flesh and collagen, Botox and liposuction, what we most fear is the dissolution of the body-mind, the death of the brain.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Mind
  • Death

• I definitely have a shareholders' perspective. I'm not doing that altruistically. I'm doing that because it's in my own self interest to do it. I think that's good for my other shareholders because they go along with me: If I do well for myself, then they do well for themselves.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Perspective

• I've never really considered packing my suitcase and heading to Hollywood.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Never
  • Hollywood
  • Packing

• I've always been a fan of a Johnny Carson because he was so great with an audience and not afraid of self-deprecating humor.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Great
  • Audience
  • Humor

• As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Picture

• The proper study of mankind is man in his relation to his deity.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Study
  • Mankind

• Jimmy Grants is my first stop every time I go home to Australia. They make the best souvlakis you have ever tasted.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Time
  • Home
  • Stop

• In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Good
  • You
  • End

• I think the greatest weakness in the church today is that almost no one believes that God invests His power in the Bible. Everyone is looking for power in a program, in a methodology, in a technique, in anything and everything but that in which God has placed it—His Word. He alone has the power to change lives for eternity, and that power is focused on the Scriptures.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Power
  • Today

• There are times for inner changes. Be ready for the choice!

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Choices
  • Ready

• But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Knows
  • Hiding
  • Picks

• The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Why
  • Want
  • Cancer

• For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before.

  

  Kathleen Norris
  • Attention
  • Grace
  • Places

• We discussed music and singing every time our paths crossed out here.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Singing

• For me, the food is most excited in 'Top Chef Mexico', I get to try it all. My mouth waters just thinking about it.

  

  Ana Claudia Talancon
  • Food
  • Try
  • Mouth

• I've never had a diamond before, and now I've got a diamond surrounded by other diamonds and diamonds in places where, frankly, you don't need diamonds at all, and I would have been happy with a piece of twine.

  

  Summer Phoenix
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