Liz Phair Quotes
Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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WWE was an opportunity to wrestle in front of thousands - in 2013, I did 227 matches, and almost all of them were in front of more than three or four thousand people, with a high of 70,000 plus. It was an incredible experience to be part of that.
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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
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Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I'm not an architectural composer.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
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Ice shelves in general have episodic carvings and there can be large icebergs breaking off - I'm talking 100km or 200km long - every 10 or 20 or 50 years.
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
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Ironically, I'm a really crap liar, even though I do it for a living. I give away too much, somehow. I can't lie!
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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It's a tough life being a pop star. You know, at the end of the day when you've paid all the bills and put the kids through college and that, you know, there's only enough left for a small island off the South Pacific.
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I was one of those avid moviegoers as a kid, and we didn't have video, so we went to see everything five times. I went to see every foreign film playing in my town. As times went on, I watched a lot less films. I have a different film school now. My film school now is my life experience.
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In the NFL, every practice could make or break you. If you dropped one ball, you'd worry about getting cut.
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We are now, all of us, cinematographers for the movie of our own lives. Not the star. Not the director. Not even the writer.
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What modernity requires is not that you cease living according to your faith, but that you accept that others may differ and that therefore politics requires a form of discourse that is reasonable and accessible to believer and non-believer alike. This religious restraint in politics is critical to the maintenance of liberal democracy.
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Picture being forced to talk endlessly about your feelings and listen and care when what you needed was just to get something done.
