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Phyllis Smith Quotes

I'm not accomplished enough to over-analyze something, because I don't have the background as far as people who write and know how to break down a character or story and stuff. I mostly go by gut instincts.

Phyllis Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actress
Nationality: american
Birth: July 10, 1951

Topics

Character People Story Enough Down

When you work with somebody you have chemistry with, it's easy and it's fun. You hardly call it work.

Joe Lando

Work Fun Easy You Chemistry Call

I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go.

Jim Lee

Me Library I Can Go Want Digital

Look at the coded language the Right is using against President Barack Obama. Openly calling him a liar in Congress, saying he is 'not a Christian, he was not born here, he is not one of us.' That makes addressing such issues trickier for the first African-American in the White House.

Jesse Jackson

Liar Saying Language Christian Look

Good schools should be left alone.

Michael Gove

Good Alone Left Should Good Schools

I think the federal government really should be supporting Louisiana and ensuring that every person from that area has an opportunity to vote on what will occur in the area.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

Opportunity Government Think Person

A friend once asked me what comedy was. That floored me. What is comedy? I don't know. Does anybody? Can you define it? All I know is that I learned how to get laughs, and that's all I know about it. You have to learn what people will laugh at, then proceed accordingly.

Stan Laurel

Friend People Me Laugh Learn Comedy

My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my 'coming out of the closet' moment.

Sue Townsend

Moment Me Writing Theatre Husband

You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.

Tracy Chapman

Moment Best Me Trying Attention You

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.

Robert Caro

World Texas Learn Political You

I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering.

Mary Barra

Student Now Old Years Started Which

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Michel de Montaigne

Courage True Virtues Generous Most

The real history of consciousness starts with one's first lie.

Joseph Brodsky

History Lie First Real Consciousness