William Lyon Phelps Quotes
There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.
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It's those damn critics again.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.
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Because of the many dimensions of forms of though which you can also put into physical form, you have the possibility to create much which we cannot fashion in the same manner.
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I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was exciting to see a TV show that incorporated music so much and in such a genius way.
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While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.
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I hate negative ads in general.
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I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie.
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We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.
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That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize.
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Now I have children of my own. They ask their mother what will I be. Will I be handsome, will I be rich?
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In high school, I listened to The Jam, stuff like that, a lot of English bands, really. And then I got into anarcho-punk bands that nobody had heard of.
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Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.
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There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.
