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Julia Phillips Quotes

Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: April 7, 1944 - January 1, 2002

Topics

People Place Hollywood Souls Holes

I can only write new words at my desk, the one I've owned for 25 years. When we moved to our new house I designed my office around it. I've written everything I've ever written at this desk.

Words House I Can Desk New Office

There's definitely been a focus on the literary aspects of my music, and I always get a little cringey because I don't feel like I'm particularly literary. There's a sort of academic label that's put on me that seems inaccurate.

Music Focus Me Feel Always Academic

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.'

Time Past Song Think Enough You

We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.

Focus Strive Extraordinary Own Our

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

Children Me Husband Smiling Down

I have friends who are writers who have had movies made of their books, and they are almost uniformly horrified about what's been done - or, at least, dissatisfied.

Friends Done Movies Been Almost Who

Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.

Beauty Grief Humor Support You Stay

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Constance Baker Motley

World View Living Harlem Broadened

One-eyed Reuben 'Rooster' Cogburn is the role that finally delivered John Wayne his Oscar.

Rooster Role Finally His Oscar John

I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.

Job Cool Thinking Stop Know Quit

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William S. Burroughs

Sad Sadness Deep Place

As a child, I was afraid of everything. My parents were shy, the kind of people for whom it is an ordeal to go and buy some bread or whatever.

Child Parents People Go Kind Shy

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