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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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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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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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got to control it so you don't get too far out of the race.
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I make a timeless music. I think I've made my mark as a lyricist and as an innovator and as a tastemaker.
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus.
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No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
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A lot of people my age who are working right now have never acted; they get a show and suddenly they're making millions. It's always those people who get it fast who have the most trouble staying grounded and being themselves.
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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?
