Phyllis Smith quotes

“Everybody wants to shine a little bit, even a wallflower.”
-- Phyllis Smith

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“As a dancer, one of my many teachers along the way made the comment that who I was onstage and who I was off were two totally different people.”
-- Phyllis Smith

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.”
-- Phyllis Smith

Source : "Naomi Woodley". Interview with Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. June 23, 2011.

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“In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.”
-- Phyllis Smith

Source : "Questions for Phyllis Smith". Interview with Jessica Grose, www.slate.com. June 23, 2011.

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“Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.”
-- Phyllis Smith

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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“That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”

Source : A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 5 (1896)

“Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.”

Source : Abraham Coles (1885). “The Life and Teachings of Our Lord in Verse: Being a Complete Harmonized Exposition of the Four Gospels, with Original Notes Textual Index, Etc. Two Volumes in One, Vol. 1 -- The Evangel (second Edition), Vol. 2 -- The Light of the World”

“When the spirit shines, even foggy skies make pleasant light.”

“Money glitters, beauty sparkles, and intelligence shines.”

“Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.”

Source : "The Heart of Things".

“We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.”

“You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.”

Source : Joe Vitale (2010). “The Awakening Course: The Secret to Solving All Problems”, p.29, John Wiley & Sons

“I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.”

“There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.”

“Our society covers these problems with a veil. All I want is an open discussion”