Walter J. Phillips Quotes
Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself.
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It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
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I'm a 'Blackadder' girl.
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Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.
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When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
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I've said my piece. My time now is entirely focused on family.
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I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'
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I never imagined I'd meet Berry Gordy who told me when he first heard me sing, "You know, your singing's okay, but I like your harmonica playing better."
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I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.
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People's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances.
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A poem's life and death dependeth still Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
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You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park
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The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
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Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level.
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My religion is not deceiving myself.
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Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.
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I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
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Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
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Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.
