"Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes."
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"The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we are not afraid of what we are and of what we feel. I am not a phoenix yet, but here among the ashes, it may be that the pain is chiefly that of new wings trying to push through."
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"Some people say that you should go to all the parties, to the nightclubs, the Viper Room, and make contacts, and I look at them and say, 'You don't want to have contacts with those people.' Look at what happened to River Phoenix [who died in 1993 of a drug overdose outside the Viper Room]. If you get caught up in that, it ruins you. Hollywood is garbage."
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"She says I am not fair, that I lack manners; She calls me proud, and that she could not love me, Were man as rare as Phoenix."
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"Glory, like the phoenix 'midst her fires, Exhales her odours, blazes, and expires."
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"Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland."
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"Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself."
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"I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the 'Boston Phoenix,' and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that's where I first saw 'deadpan.'"
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"Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?"
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"I like Joaquin Phoenix. He's an amazing actor and he's so buff."
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