Carl Phillips Quotes
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I think my message goes out to the entire spectrum of political parties. I'm supported by the Tea Party, the Conservative Party and the Republican Party. I come from a Democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I'm kind of sarcastic. Not cynical but sarcastic.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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Contrary to popular belief, I'm not always trying to stand out.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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The funkiest housing in Holland is for low-income, and I think that's very nice.
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Even if you've gone easy on the vermouth, there are still serious downsides to alcohol consumption, including but not limited to the sense that you're a good dancer.
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I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.
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I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.
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Friendship is often outgrown; and his former child’s clothes will no more fit a man than some of his former friendships.
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Abedi appears to be one of the many thousands of Western Muslims who have embraced militant Islam, often as a way of trying to resolve the tension between their split identities.
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Even though I've been putting out bodies of work for years, 'Beauty Behind the Madness' felt like the beginning.
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I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
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Even when writing your own poems, you need to talk to people; you need to magpie around, getting words and things. I'm very against the celebrity culture that wants to say: 'this is a genius, this is one person who has done something brilliant.' There are always a hundred people in the background who have helped to make it.
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I think there are different kinds of fame. There's fame which is plastic and about paparazzi and money and being rich, and then there's the fame, which is when no one knows who you are but everyone wants to know who you are.
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If I can't be me and be accepted and loved for that, then what's the point?
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Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - write what you must.
