Busy Philipps Quotes
I don't wear a lot of jeans, which I know is a controversial statement. I just don't feel the most like myself in jeans.
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For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
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People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
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The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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Elegance is very dangerous. It's like TNT. A little goes a long way.
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I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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I enjoy three meals a day, and 90 per cent of what I eat is vegetarian and homemade. I occasionally eat non-vegetarian, and chicken preparations are my favourite.
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Orson Welles was one of these people who was defying everything the doctors told him he wasn't supposed to be doing. He was really enjoying himself when he was eating what he wanted to eat.
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When a movie is being rolled out, the studio publicists and all our individual publicists get together and come up with bullet points and talking points - 'Make sure you stay away from this,' and 'Don't say that quite that way, because that quote can be taken out of context,' and that kind of thing.
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A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
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Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
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Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
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'Boyz-n-the-Hood' was actually supposed to be written for Eazy's group. He had a group out in New York called Home Boys Only, called HBO. One of them looked like LL Cool J. Eazy wanted to write a song for them, a street song, like what we were doing on the mix tapes. So when I wrote it, it was too West Coast for them.
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My next-door neighbor's two dogs have created more shovel-ready jobs than this current administration.
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Ultimately, Congressional medicine is like veterinary medicine: It must be strong enough to work, and tasty enough to swallow.
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You can find episodes like the flu epidemic or war times when mortality rates go up, but sustained increases in mortality for any major group in any society are really quite rare. It's an indication that something is very wrong.
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I like the honesty about direct selling because it openly tells people the way to get rich is residual income: Get paid tomorrow for something you did yesterday - and let it accumulate.
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I don't wear a lot of jeans, which I know is a controversial statement. I just don't feel the most like myself in jeans.
