Robert Phillips (Bob Phillips) Quotes
A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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I'm not a quitter. All my career, I went through a lot of physical adversity, injuries. It's in my nature to be a battler.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.
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But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's not 1973.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.
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I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings.
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If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.
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Children are more than we think they are; they can do more than we think they can do. All they need is a vote of confidence from grownups, whom they will ultimately replace anyway. Their dream today will become the realities of tomorrow.
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Children will learn to do what they want to learn to do.
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Sometimes you have to understand your place.
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A credit card sometimes adds to the high cost of living but more often to the cost of high living.
