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Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes

The rules of Canadian engagement say that if we encounter a celebrity, we have to pretend we're not encountering a celebrity.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality:
Birth: June 14, 1968

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Rules Say Celebrity Pretend Canadian

I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now.

Guilty Now Want Extraordinary Even

Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the reader meets the authoritative, perfected self; in life, the writer is lumbered with the uncertain, imperfect one.

Life Work Self Page Know Why

I watch people, friends of mine, and see how they portray themselves online and I find interesting that it's kind of a hyper-real version of yourself, how you'd like to be seen, in a way.

Yourself People Interesting Friends

Where I come from, being a hard man is being able to take a good beating and then get back up again and carry on fighting.

Good Man Fighting Back Back Up Hard

I've got no business giving advice to anyone. Even a fictional character.

Business Character Advice Giving Got

I'm really pleased to share the 'Station to Station' film. It has a very unorthodox structure; it's made up of separate one-minute films. So you watch this piece that is like time moving. Everything is democratised, whether it's a minute of Patti Smith or a single landscape with a drone, it's this amazing modern kaleidoscope.

Time Amazing Moving Landscape You

I'm good at pants. They are just two big sleeves sewn together.

Good Together Pants Two Big Just

I believe that tax dollars used to create a new school of engineering for Florida State University, when there is already a successful partnership in place with Florida A&M University, is counterproductive to increasing engineering graduates.

School Believe Partnership Create

Most parts in comedy, they're not really written for men. They're written for, like, these boy-men.

Men Comedy Like Most Parts Really

I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.

Love Myself Conflict Feel You Big

There's a lot for screenwriters to steal from songwriters, in terms of getting to the point.

Paul Thomas Anderson

Point Steal Lot Songwriters Getting

My parents and my sister died... very close together, and after that, I lost quite a bit of my sense of humor. Most of it I think has kind of come back, but I know there was a time when I didn't think things were funny anymore. I kind of think they're funny again.

Funny Time Humor Together Parents

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