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Phyllis Smith Quotes

When I hurt my knee, I knew it was time to retire from dancing, and I needed a job just to pay the bills, and I ended up as a receptionist for about three-four years.

Phyllis Smith

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Time Job Hurt Dancing Pay Retire

I wasn't on 'You Really Got Me,' but I did play on the Kinks' records.

Jimmy Page

Me You Play Got Records Did

Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.

Robert Smithson

World End Language Find Head Up

In places like Glasgow and Newcastle, audiences have a tradition of being amusingly combative. But they're not trying to ruin the act, they're trying to give you a challenge. It's like a cat playing with a mouse - the cat doesn't want the mouse to die, it wants to keep it alive for its own amusement and to be entertained by its struggle.

Stewart Lee

Challenge Struggle Die Trying You

Beyond a certain point, the whole universe becomes a continuous process of initiation.

Robert Anton Wilson

Process Universe Beyond Point Whole

I come from strong people who believe in the freedom of expression and, of course, a culture that believes in that. So the idea of overcoming adversity is something that is not unfamiliar.

Robert Battle

Adversity Freedom Culture People

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.

Russell Brand

Strength Loud Does Belligerent

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

Joy Page

Grief Finding Seeing Born Strange

I also work with the spirituality of people.

Della Reese

Work People Spirituality Also

It doesn't matter where you start out, it's where you end up.

Chris Harris, Jr.

Start End You Matter Out Up

I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!' Or else we're just not going to buy it.

Colin Trevorrow

Song Better You Said Buy Going

There are times where the dysfunction in the Senate just goes too far.

Bob Corker

Where Just Far Senate Dysfunction

It is our duty to see that our future citizens are well born; that they are properly nourished, and are reared in that environment most likely to develop in them their full capacity and powers.

Arthur Capper

Future Environment Born Duty See