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 grew up in a little funny town called Xuzhou, in the countryside, very poor. We didn't have hot water. We were four children: three girls and a boy.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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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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The Republican Party I grew up in was a Republican Party of family unity.
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I feel that I have grown so much as an actor being on 'Homeland'.
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In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.
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I think the strength of the Catholic church is that when it does finally identify a problem, it works to resolve it.
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Men should be able to see themselves in female characters and female strength, just as much as women are able to see themselves in male characters.
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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.
