Busy Philipps Quotes
I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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It's hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.
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If you're into a leather-jacketed crime fighter and his artificially intelligent robotic supercar, tune into 'The Good Wife.' If, on the other hand, you prefer the misadventures of a freelance itinerant trucker and his simian sidekick, check out 'The Walking Dead.' Or DVR them both and go talk to your family.
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The trick to being a novelist is to act like an iceberg. Make it seem as if you're displaying only one-tenth of what you know, and the other nine-tenths isn't visible and never mind if that part is pure styrofoam!
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I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It's one of the strangest but most entertaining things I've read about myself online.
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Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.
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I make music because I like making music.
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India should walk on her own shadow - we must have our own development model.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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There's a preponderance of scientists and engineers among China's rulers. New President Xi Jinping was trained as a chemical engineer. His predecessor, Hu Jintao, earned a degree in hydraulic engineering. His predecessor, Jiang Zemin, held a degree in electrical engineering.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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I chose the Egyptian dream: the dream to make a TV show, and then be called an infidel by the end.
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I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
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To give up my job as a temp and actually make a living doing comedy, it was staggering.
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As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.
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Unity, in Fascist terms, means uniformity; freedom of conscience means insubordination; co-ordination means coercion.
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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.
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I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.
