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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Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.
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I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.
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'You Can Count On Me' took 20 days to shoot, and we had 50 days to shoot 'Margaret.'
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A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.
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Young women with ambitions should be very crafty and cautious, lest mayhap they be caught in the soft, silken mesh of a happy marriage, and go down to oblivion, dead to the world.
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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.
