Liz Phair Quotes
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In the daytime, I was studying at school and in the evenings, I was a stage kid. I was trained in theatre and public speaking. I was a really active kid.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
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Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.
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Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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I've always wanted to stay involved with young people. I never bought into the idea that entertainers owe nothing to their audience except a good performance.
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We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.
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I'm boring. My beliefs are neither here nor there.
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Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
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It is hard for anyone who discovers George Washington not to write about him, perhaps because he is so hard to discover and such a surprise when you do.
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Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
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The fact that the general incidence of leukemia has doubled in the last two decades may be due, partly, to the increasing use of x-rays for numerous purposes. The incidence of leukemia in doctors, who are likely to be so exposed, is twice that of the general public. In radiologists … the incidence is ten times greater.
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Whenever you do any one thing intensely over a period of time you have to give up other lives you could be living. You have to have a real single-minded kind of tunnel vision if you want to get anything significant accomplished. Especially if the desire is not to be a businessman, but to be a creative person.
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I am successful if I manage to make a film that I want and if it works emotionally for the audience and if it stays with them after the screening and means something for them. Awards or money have symbolic power.
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I immerse myself in everything I write; I feel what my characters do. I suffer with them. I cry as I type, sometimes to the point that I can't see the screen.
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Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
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God wills us to have everything. As we express life, we fulfill God's law of abundance, but we do this only as we realize that there is good enough to go around-only as we know that all of God's gifts are given as freely and fully as the air and the sunshine.
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I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.
