Dan Phillips Quotes
Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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The world is too violent right now.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I can paint in jail.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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I couldn't follow nobody's rules.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I think protecting your family and giving to them is so important. It's the most important achievement.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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Six years, I didn't act. Then I wrote myself a role - I won prizes all over the world.
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I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
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If I ever feel that this is dangerous or I'm scared of it, then that probably draws me more towards it.
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The narrative oftentimes is that everything that comes out of the hood is 'real,' and so I thought, 'I'll base it on the absurd, the not real. I'll twist the idea of real on its head and see if I can get away with it. I'll make paintings that come not from a place but through an abstract gaze.'
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
