Phil Collins Quotes
I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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Boxing, in the most general terms, is a poor man's sport. All you have is your hands to make a living.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
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I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
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My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.
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My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
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Like most people, I shrink from exposing my innermost secrets and my most private and intimate actions.
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I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.
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I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
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Women hold up more than half the sky and represent much of the world's unrealized potential. They are the educators. They raise the children. They hold families together and increasingly drive economies. They are natural leaders. We need their full engagement... in government, business and civil society.
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Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
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In the electric age we wear all mankind as our skin. (p. 47)
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Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between the partners. Some relationships are the slow, dark dance of death.
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The racing driver's mind has to have the ability to have amazing anticipation, coordination, and reflex. Because of the speed the car goes.
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I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.
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Business is the most powerful force in society. It has the highest potential for solving social problems. Once consumers saw examples of prosperous companies integrating social concerns into their business practices, they were emboldened to demand the same of other businesses. Businesses could no longer say it was impossible.
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I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the past 15, 20 years. It's just a constant learning and fascinating thing for me.
