Liz Phair Quotes
I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
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When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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I believe nobody is stronger than the state. So the state would be strong, and we have to work altogether to make the strength of the state.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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I'm a dork!
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When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
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A theory of creativity is actually just a metaphor. A pool of ideas, a well of memories, a voice.
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A feeling of real need is always a good enough reason to pray.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.
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I think good art happens on that edge between comfortable and in a lot of pain, you know what I mean?
