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“When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.”

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Sally Phillips

Sally Phillips is a British actress born on May 10, 1970. She is known for her performances in film and television, particularly in the comedy genre. more

“As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.”

World Writing I Can Ideas Might Jobs Values Actors Can Do Scene Add Scripts Ruins Vague Quirks Vague Ideas

Author:Sally Phillips

“Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.”

Feels Film Language Consumers Impulse Insecure Grim Dvds Foreign Language Tourettes

Author:Sally Phillips

“Middle-aged women on telly is a bit of a hot topic - before, we were 27 to 37, and now we're 40 to 50. You do notice as you get older... you go past 35, and suddenly you're playing baddies.”

Past Bits Middle Hot Topics Middle Aged Baddies Hot Topic

Author:Sally Phillips

“One year you go in for auditions, and everybody thinks you're the queen of comedy, and the next year, you're so 'yesterday,' and it's not because you've done anything, or your ability has changed; you haven't been in work because you've been putting on weight and then trying to lose it.”

Thinking Trying Years Done Next Loses Ability Comedy Havens Changed Weight Yesterday Queens Auditions Next Year

Author:Sally Phillips

“TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'”

Feels Difficult Tvs Scripts Branding

Author:Sally Phillips

“Satisfy yourself beyond all doubt that you are qualified for the course to which you now aspire.....and try to achieve something in your own land before you venture on a strange one.”

Trying Courses Doubt Land Achieve Strange Aspire Venture Qualified

Author:Charles Dickens

“Some people find it easier to picture the stream of inspiration as being like radio waves of all sorts being broadcast at all times. With practice, we learn to hear the desired frequency on request. We tune in to the frequency we want.”

People Want Inspiration Practice Easier Wave Radio All Time Streams Tunes Frequency Request Radio Waves

Book:The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

Source: The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition

“The one mistake which is committed habitually by people who have the gift of half-genius, is waiting for inspiration.”

People Inspiration Waiting Mistake Half Genius Committed One Mistake

Author:Philip Gilbert Hamerton

“Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without Marlowe, or Marlowe without Chaucer, or Chaucer without those forgotten poets who paved the ways and tamed the natural savagery of the tongue. For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”

Source: A Room of One's Own

“And that's the kind of thing people think, you know, that if you sign up to be a singer-songwriter you know how to deal with people setting up hate websites, or people being obsessed with you and crying when you touch them, but you don't, and you just have to deal with.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Kind Hate Deals Know How Cry Singers Setting Settings Obsessed Songwriters Website Singer Songwriters

Author:Jessie J

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