Busy Philipps Quotes
I was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends laugh, like falling on the ground on the playground and doing like bits and characters.
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Philanthropy is natural. For a mother, taking care of her children is natural. If I am rich, I take care of the poor, like a mother would.
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A new untruth is better than an old truth.
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I've been told I have an aggressive driving style.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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My hunger is always there.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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We are not opposed to public transportation. We are opposed to wasteful boondoggles.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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It's strong to be vulnerable. To be able to communicate with other women is one of the most powerful things.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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I'm confident and really optimistic.
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If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.
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I run upright mostly when I see daylight, so if you watch film you'll see I don't get hit in the chest much.
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Where we're coming down is we currently have $787 billion of stimulus that's been passed. We're certainly focusing on spending that money as quickly and as efficiently and as transparently as we can. We think that's absolutely the right strategy.
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I was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends laugh, like falling on the ground on the playground and doing like bits and characters.
