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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The man who first gave history a recognized place in science was an ancient historian.
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We must scrunch or be scrunched.
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I believe in art, and more fundamentally the freedom to express one's self creatively. People don't know yet what they'll ultimately believe in or how they'll organize their lives. They're kind of in limbo.
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While we proceed to safeguard our national interests, let us also safeguard human interests. And the elimination of war and arms is clearly in the interest of both.
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I don't want to be characterized as the big booster guy.
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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?
