Busy Philipps Quotes
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Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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If you are messing around all day and then scream for certainty, you're not going to get it. If you spend energy and do the work and develop that certainty, you'll get to where you need to be, even if you don't know exactly where that is.
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Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
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I would give no thought of what the world might say of me, if I could only transmit to posterity the reputation of an honest man.
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A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.
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Seeing the bigger picture opens your eyes to what is the truth.
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Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment, but I enjoy anything where you get to flex your acting muscles, you get to really go for it.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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Africa's mineral wealth is great; we should co-operate in its development.
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Actually I dance really well on the floor.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there are proclamations of the greatest songs' success, there's artwork. So there is a tactile, physical experience of learning the song and the way it's notated.
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I think there are readers out there and I don't think the book is dead. And more importantly I don't think readers have to choose between literary and commercial fiction.
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There are opposing forces in all living things. My work reflects this and stirs up a contrast of emotions in the viewer... perception versus annoyance. To the viewer who has reached that level of awareness, my work is no longer abstract, but very real.
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You create your own material to try to get it out there because a lot of people are multi-hyphenates, to use the corporate term. You're creating stuff to be in in order to showcase all your talents. I think the idea of using YouTube and the Internet, you don't have to wait around for a network to buy your show.
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Waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.
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...those serpents! There's no pleasing them!
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'Freaks and Geeks' was a show where our individuality was really celebrated.
