Will Phillips
Will Phillips
Will Phillipsis an American student from West Fork, Arkansas. At the age of ten, while a fifth grader at West Fork Elementary School in 2009, Phillips gained international attention for his refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance because of social-political reasons...
children pregnancy book
What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.
kids faults blind
I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
kids theatre want
I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.
giving virtue i-can
I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
government dull narnia
A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.
christian thinking who-i-am
I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.
girl labels designer
I truly would love to be a designer-label girl, but I am very much High Street.
past topics hot
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.
queens thinking years
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.
scripts tvs branding
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?'
insecure dvds language
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.
jobs writing ideas
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.
comfort nervous ifs
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.
writing absurd situation
When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.